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Video game legislation proposal: videogame ID checks |
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Two House members have introduced a new bill that will make video game retailers perform identification checks in order to prohibit minors from purchasing games meant for adults. The people behind this bill are Lee Terry (R-Neb.) and Jim Matheson (D-Utah).Last Wednesday, the pair introduced the bill known as the Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act so that kids "can only access age appropriate content without parental permission,” said Terry.
This bill will put a requirement of ID checks before consumers can fully purchase video games that have have been given Mature (M) or Adult Only (AO) ratings, presumably by the ESRB.
Furthermore, retailers will have to post the ratings system in their respective stores for people to have a proper knowledge on the ratings of the video games. Those who fail to follow this regulation will be fined a civil penalty of about US$ 5,000.
Even though numerous bills have been turned down in the past, Terry is keeping his hopes up for this particular bill. He explained:
This bill doesnÂ’t involve itself in content or defining the standards for "mature" or "adults only". It simply requires the retailer to post what the industry has defined as "mature" and "adults only" so that parents can know, and requires checking of identification.
This is certainly an interesting take on making bills for video games and children, just like the "games-as-porn" bill in Massachusetts and the "ultra violent" game bill in Oregon. Question is, how will the bill fare? Only time will tell. We'll keep you guys updated on the developments of this matter.
Via Variety
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2. ESRB rating system, after Jack Thompson and other peoples attacks, are pretty well known. they go like this to them. Kid friendly, and not kid friendly. If the ESRB rating system has to be plastered on a wall, the people who know nothing about it wouldn't know what to do with it.
3. No console allows AO games, and I have never seen an AO game on a shelf of any retailer. The only place to get them is off the internet, and yes, that will soon be the easiest place for a minor to get his hands on M rated games.
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As for "no console" allowing AO games??? Not sure what the heck he/she is talking about. That's flat out false.
The funny part about this is, this is exactly what we've been trying to pass all along. However idiots like Jack have to throw up smoke screens of violence that take away from the point then they've been getting turned down. With reasons such as FREEDOM OF SPEECH. No one ever wanted to ban the material just restrict the material. Which makes the outcomes even more confusing.
Now that they're focusing on the actual issue, maybe we can get somewhere!
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Does that not makes sense or am I just stupid?
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BTW, ISOHaven, by "no console not allowing AO games" they meant the various console manufacturers will not approve any AO third party titles.
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You shouldn't be allowed to trade legal tender w/o parental consent.
If you can dodge a beer you can dodge a dollar!
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Every store I have been to in the last THREE YEARS has carded me, only recently turning 17 in January I've been forced to show my ID everywhere; GameStop, EB, Walmart, BestBuy, Target..
This bill is a waste of time. I don't want to hear about how no one is checking when it has been in the news several times over the last few years. It's obviously an issue to some people, but I for one don't care. At all.
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Um...did you even think for one second HOW they got them?
Stealing from parents? Parents buying it for them?
The kids that are smoking EQUALS the kids whose parents let them play the game anyway.
In FACT your comment here only PROVES that it DOES work.
As for those kids that steal them....if a kid steal his/hers parents copy of GTA4 then...OH WELL...that's the parents problem.
My POS step mother buys/gives my 14 year old sister cigs all the time. That's HER CHOICE. It's HER CHOICE because the store WILL NOT sell them to my sister.
So, just because my 14 year old sister smokes doesn't mean the system isn't working. It's working JUST FINE. It's my POS step mother that has failed.
This is why I find it hilarious that people view this type of regulation and THROW CHILDISH FITS about how the "man" or the government wants to raise our kids for us. When it's exactly the opposite. This type of regulation ALLOWS us to raise our own kids.
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So, you've been in each of the 3,000+ Walmarts? That's just Walmart!
That's a pretty small box you're living in....
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