Yeah. And you can even just look at how difficult it is to get a book banned these days. Many people are so used to freedom these days that if they detect a minor infraction on that freedom they'll immediately react and fight it to the bitter end. There is constantly this debate over what we should be protected from and whether or not those protections will clash with our freedoms.
As Nixon's head once said, "We enjoy so many freedoms on this planet, it's sickening!"
And we have a term for those kind of people. They're called communists.
LOL! Well, I've certainly never been aligned in ideology with neocons, but I've never really considered them to be communists. But they would certainly share that in common with them, wanting to control your day to day life.
Yeah that will never fly. Even conservatives have been known to lead the fight against a bloated public sector. And creating an entire organization devoted solely to the rating and/or censorship of games and other media would be too difficult to manage. Partly because of idealistic differences between committee members or what constitutes an M-Rated game, and also because it would fall under a lot of scrutiny by members of Congress in regards to First Amendment issues.
Overall, it's simply too idealistic. It just sounds like the wet dream of a neoconservative who wants to tell other people how they should live their lives. And with real issues affecting the U.S. like the war in Iraq, our foreign policy toward Iran and North Korea, healthcare issues, welfare reform, education reform, illegal immigration, etc; these are the real things the majority of people care about. And politicians understand that so they're not going to waste their time on some ideological belief such as Jack Thompson's.
Even if his vision comes to pass, I'll probably be old enough by then to still rent ultra-porn anyway. So it won't really affect me either way.
This is similar to the problem with the MPAA. Many filmmakers assert that even though movies are rated based on the MPAA's standards, that the standards are either too high, or the movies aren't even being watched carefully enough to determine what rating it gets. They may even just watch portions of the film and kind of judge for themselves what kind of movie it seems like.
But I suppose I'm a bit confused cause I thought any rating/censorship agency was generally a government agency. Is that not the case?
I'm not sure how you'd reform it beyond what it is already. It seems to cover the most significant age demographics that most people agree on. And making it any more stringent that is supposedly is would merely meet way too much resistence among liberals, 1st Amendment advocates, etc.
At least in the U.S. anway. I'm not sure what the rating systems in other countries are and it'd be a shame if someone who's not from the U.S. didn't enlighten us on the ratings systems in their countries.
As Nixon's head once said, "We enjoy so many freedoms on this planet, it's sickening!"
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LOL! Well, I've certainly never been aligned in ideology with neocons, but I've never really considered them to be communists. But they would certainly share that in common with them, wanting to control your day to day life.
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Overall, it's simply too idealistic. It just sounds like the wet dream of a neoconservative who wants to tell other people how they should live their lives. And with real issues affecting the U.S. like the war in Iraq, our foreign policy toward Iran and North Korea, healthcare issues, welfare reform, education reform, illegal immigration, etc; these are the real things the majority of people care about. And politicians understand that so they're not going to waste their time on some ideological belief such as Jack Thompson's.
Even if his vision comes to pass, I'll probably be old enough by then to still rent ultra-porn anyway. So it won't really affect me either way.
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But I suppose I'm a bit confused cause I thought any rating/censorship agency was generally a government agency. Is that not the case?
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At least in the U.S. anway. I'm not sure what the rating systems in other countries are and it'd be a shame if someone who's not from the U.S. didn't enlighten us on the ratings systems in their countries.
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