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UK Prime Minister worried about video game content |
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Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, expressed concern over the content of video games, especially those with knife-wielding characters. As part of the Prime Minister's Violent Crime Action Plan, Brown looks to lay down a total ban on knife use - a view shared by other parties - and may be hoping that the game industry will also do its part. He said:I am very worried about video and computer games. ... No one wants censorship or an interfering State. ... But the industry has some responsibility to society and needs to exercise that.
He stated earlier that authorities must send out the message and reinforce it with action. There was no mention of similar action to be taken against other portions of the entertainment industry, but there's a possibility that some will crop up soon.
The Prime Minister has yet to lay out his full plans for the zero-blade tolerance plan, which will be revealed by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith sometime in early February. Developments as they come in.
Via The Sun
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they're banning knives in public - knife grime will rise
I feel sorry for you UK peo... screw it, no I don't. You brought this on yourself. Enjoy your sorry, pathetic lives when thinking for yourself gets banned because you could be plotting to hurt someone.
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Get your facts right before 'feeling sorry for us' and for all the people hurling abuse at the guy. Read the bloody article. Is he saying he wants censorship? No he isn't, he's simply saying that he believes the game industry has a responsibility to the general public, which they do, as does any industry.
He's not blaming the violence on the games, he's blaming it on the legality of knives that have no use but for violence.
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On topic, anyone who is persuaded by a video game to commit an act of violence wasn't right in the head anyway.
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