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Hillary Clinton gives her stand on video games and the media |
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Common Sense Media recently submitted a questionnaire to the 2008 US presidential candidates, asking them their views on children and the media. How does this concern gamers you ask? Well here's the second question:
To date, nearly 10 states have considered legislation to keep violent video games out of kids' hands. Would you support this type of legislation at the federal level? What other strategies would you support to keep the video game industry and other media companies from marketing and selling inappropriate content to children?
Perhaps the most interesting answer comes from candidate Hillary Clinton, who introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act back in 2005. The act called to impose fines to those who would sell "Mature" or "Adult only" rated games to minors.
The bill was introduced because of the controversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Although the bill didn't become law, Clinton seems as firm as ever in her resolve on the issue. Here's her response to the question:
When I introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act two years ago, I did so because I felt that video game content was getting increasingly violent and sexually explicit, yet young people were able to purchase these games with relative ease while their parents were struggling to keep up with being informed about the content.
[...] The bill would [...] require an annual, independent analysis of game ratings and require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct an investigation to determine whether hidden sexual content like what was in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a pervasive problem and to take appropriate action.
In addition, the bill would help ensure that consumers have a mechanism to file complaints with the FTC and that the FTC would report these complaints to Congress.
Finally, the bill would authorize the FTC to conduct an annual, random audit of retailers to monitor enforcement and report the findings to Congress.
I was motivated to take action when I found out that there was embedded illicit sexual content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board was unaware of the embedded content. I called on the FTC to investigate the source of the content and, as a result, the company issued a recall of the game.
When I am president, I will work to protect children from inappropriate video game content.
Read the answers from other presidential candidates - Senator John Edwards, Senator Barack Obama, Governor Bill Richardson and Governor Mitt Romney - by following the link below.
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Gotta love how the media, even the videogame media, is now trained to interview only the so-called leading candidates. Why was Kucinich not interviewed?
Vote Dennis Kucinich.
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she's not saying shes going to ban violent games, merely that kids wont be able to buy age rated titles.
the shops in the US should ID buyers of restricted titles. simple.
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Same goes to you Thompson.
Bunch of ignorant whiny douches....
Oh, and that's a good one...."when I become president"....yeah, if you're president, this whole country is royally *****ed. Vote Ron Paul people, keep this ***** out of our government for good.
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Sex in games? violence. OK how about we ban CNN the BBC as starters as its shown all day and full of graphic gore and violence. And whilst we are busy banning stuff lets do away with MTV as Britney dressing in a miniskirt wearing a school uniform and is doing her videos was a use of sex to sell her self (prostitution?) sorry her songs, whoops? was it really a song?
I just can't wait to see what they say about Duke Nukem Forever. Probably rated for grandparents as they are too old to do the dirty and too feeble to be violent.
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The law is in effect NOW anyways, you're not ALLOWED to sell those games to kids. It's just not enforced enough.
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Stop taking the responsibility from the Parents, and let us have fun.
Vote Kucinich (or Ron Paul).
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she never said anything about banning violent video games altogether o.o just restricting them to minors... they already do that with movies so its not like its anything new....
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NOTHING.
Please, protecting the young ones from retarded parents would do many alot of good.
Simply put, if the kid can't handle sitting still or behaving, they can't handle GTA.
Which... on the other hand the people that are online these days aren't much better.
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Barack Obama
D-IL:
A: We need to give parents the tools and information they need to make choices about what programs their children are watching or what video games they are playing. As we move towards a digital environment, there is a golden opportunity for the industry to do this on their own%u2014to use the latest in technology to give parents more information and more choice. For example, this technology could make it possible for parents to create their own family tier just by programming their television to block certain channels, block certain genres of programming like dramas, or block television at certain times of the day. The same can be said of video games, especially as we%u2019re moving into an era when they can be downloaded as easily as today%u2019s movies and television shows.
I would call upon the video game industry to give parents better information about programs and video games by improving the voluntary rating system we currently have. Broadcasters and video game producers should take it upon themselves to improve this system to include easier to find and easier to understand descriptions of exactly what kind of content is included. But if the industry fails to act, then my administration would.
And even if the industry does do some responsible self-policing, there%u2019s still a role for the federal government to play. We need to understand the impact of these new media better. That%u2019s why I supported federal funding to study the impact of video games on children%u2019s cognitive development.
This is exactly how I feel. +1 for obama.
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