ECA launches campaign against H.R. 231 |
Last week, Gino posted an article about Rep. Joe Baca and his H.R. 231,
a bill that would require all games with a Teen rating or stronger to
have a warning label on their boxes. This time, the Entertainment
Consumers Association (ECA) takes a stand and launches a campaign to
trash the bill. This is what the ECA said on their site:Congress is simply misinformed on this issue. The vast majority of studies show that there is no proven causal link between violent media of any type and aggressive behavior. Several studies suggest that playing video games can be helpful to young people... Further, the bill requires the label even for games that are not rated T or above for violence, which could confuse parents and undermine the ESRB, which according to the FTC is the most enforced media retail system.
HR 231 is an unconstitutional restraint on speech that will harm consumers and parents alike. Please join with the ECA, and let your representatives know that you want them to let the industry and parents continue with a system that works, and have Congress stay focused on the real problems facing our nation.
Surely, you wouldn't want those unsightly warning labels on your newly purchased game, right? If you want to support this movement, simply go to the source link below and fill the form out.
If all goes well, Lightning's face won't be stamped away with a big warning label by the time Final Fantasy XIII comes out.
It started here:
Via ECA
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Comments [refresh]
Hell no! It will ruin my box art
Don't ALL games already have a label on them? and isn't it ALREADY required? lol
BOO BOO!!!!!
Cigarettes cause terminal illnesses, very addictive poison and kill people, the warnings on them are a tiny tiny print.
We don't want them to ruin the box art with that eye sore crap, video games never caused diseases or killed any one, so if they insist on putting the warning on the box it should be on the back side in a tiny print (the fine print that no one reads) that way it wouldn't bother us and won't ruin the artist's hard work it took to create that art.
Next they'll probably put warnings on paintings and other types of art because of the material used might cause harm.
THIS IS A TOTAL BS!!!!!!!
Have you ever seen cigarette boxes from Canada? Huge pictures of the insides of deformed lungs cover almost half the box.
Anyway, I agree fully. This is just rediculous. Troops are dying in Iraq yet we're all worried about some little kid punching a dude on Tekken. The little brat could just turn on boxing on ESPN or something an it would be just as bad, if not worse, seeing as boxing is real.
I don't understand this. The US is just so friggin' messed up these days.
I read the fine print. it's interesting sometimes lol. Besides, i'm sure that's just a sticker on the plastic packaging like a price tag. we'd all just discard it.