Nanny state-ism - a perfect example: New York
Yeah sure - try to enforce
this law...
From
Gamespot:
New York introduces more game bills
New legislation in the Senate and Assembly would make it a felony to sell games with depraved violence and indecent images to minors.
Earlier this month, the New York state Senate approved a bill that would make rating labels on games mandatory in the state and establish an advisory council to appraise the job done by the Entertainment Software Rating Board and a parent-teacher program to identify kids at risk for violent behavior.
The bill passed the Senate and was moved to the Assembly in just four days. With momentum like that behind the issue, two more bills were introduced last week, one from the Senate, and another from the Assembly.
After his rating labels bill met with such swift acceptance, State Senator Andrew Lanza last week introduced S5941, which would make it a class E felony to sell or rent to minors any game including "depictions of depraved violence and indecent images."
The bill defines depraved violence as "any photographic, photorealistic, or other similar visual representation of the rape, dismemberment, physical torture, mutilation, or evisceration of a human body." Indecent images would be any such visual representation "of a person or a portion of the human body which depicts nudity, sexual conduct, or sadomasochistic abuse and which is harmful to minors."
Emphasis mine -- if the gott-damned parents did their job in the first place, there would not be such a problem with widespread violence among kids...
Posted by DaveH at May 31, 2007 11:10 AM
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