Video game watchdog shuts down

[Will E Worm]

David Walsh said when he was assembling his first report card on video game violence 13 years ago, children were attacking on-screen monsters or aliens with imaginary chain saws and guns.

"When I saw kids as young as 8, 9 years old literally doing facial contortions as they killed and dismembered people, it was pretty shocking. And I think what happened is a lot of other people got shocked as well," Walsh recalls. "I don't think we want our kids' culture defined by killing, mayhem and dismemberment as entertainment."

That first report card, which singled out bloody first-person shooter games "Doom" and "Duke Nukem," made an instant splash on Capitol Hill in 1996 and made the annual reports issued each holiday season by Walsh's National Institute on Media and the Family a news fixture.

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Parents need to take responsibility for their own children.

But, people who manufacture products that are more geared towards children should take some responsibility.

One thing we don't need is a "nonprofit" organization telling us what to do and walking all over the first amendment rights.

 

[whalers90]

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Parents need to take responsibility for their own children.

But, people who manufacture products that are more geared towards children should take some responsibility.

One thing we don't need is a "nonprofit" organization telling us what to do and walking all over the first amendment rights.

parents DO need to be responsible for their own children, but i also have to say ITS A VIDEO GAME NOT REAL LIFE!

 

[Legzman]

so this guy is out of business? Good fuckin riddance! There's nothing I hate more than censorship. All it does is protect lazy fuckin parents from themselves...