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PTC fights to keep M-game ads off buses |
Listed in: News, Games Tags: Boston, Chicago, Oregon
It is well documented that some months back, Boston's MBTA trains had to cease displaying Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories ads because of pressure from concerned parents and other organizations.
In the latest skirmish between parents and M-games, the PTC issued a press release together with the organization Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) asking Denver's Regional Transport District (RTD) to bar such games from advertising on public transport that reads:In the latest mass transit controversy, the Parents Television Council (PTC) has partnered with the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC), which led the fight against BostonÂ’s GTA ads. The organizations issued a joint press release yesterday calling upon DenverÂ’s Regional Transportation District (RTD) to reject future ads for games rated M and AO.
Citing ads for Vice City Stories which ran on RTD trains last Fall, the PTC formalized the request at the RTDÂ’s monthly board meeting on Tuesday. PTC Denver Chapter Director George Robison said at the meeting:
Our public transportation network serves more than half the residents of Colorado and is doing them a disservice with its tacit approval for the dangerous content in the Mature-rated video games that are advertised throughout the system. IÂ’m here today to remind Chairman Chris Martinez and the board that they have a responsibility to act in the best interest of those who voted you into these important positionsÂ…
The Denver RTD has yet to post an official statement in response to the press release.
Via Game Politics
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Or what about the giant alcohol bilboards like the one outside my window in the middle of the city?
And what about the posters for the newest swear-fest of a rap act?
While we're at it, why not just ban everything that could maybe, at some time, in some place, make someone maybe do some damn parenting!!
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money/food/other.
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There may have been cases were someone got an idea from a video game but if so I am sure they must have already been unstable to think it was a good idea in the first place and to actually do it. Plus they probably would have used an idea from a movie or TV instead if they didn't have video games. They even could have used an idea from the news about the war if they really wanted to harm someone. Content filtering is not the answer, these fat-f*ck tree-hugging idiots need to stop trying to impose there will on the world.
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Check our country's laws; FREEDOM TO ADVERTISE!!!
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Those mothers need to stop blaming others on the unstable minds of their kids. It's their own faults for not forcing moral values down their latch key kids throats.
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