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Rates are there for something. Parents, and also the stores, should control wich games their children play.
Some psychologists have done studies and said that violence in movies are worst than in games for teenagers. Those who plays game have more human reactions to images of real violence and murders.

 

Kiddy pron isn't censored. It's illegal in order to stop people from making it (to protect the kiddies).
Currently, drawn kiddy pron is still legal (mostly, this could change), because there is no one who needs protecting.

As for propaganda and spamming the internet...

Uh... Have you been on the internet, ever? Neither is currently censored, nor should it be.

The deal with censorship, is that once you censor the statements of someone you don't like, (say, neo-nazi's), your legally obligated to censor the statements of people you do like (say, the green party) simply because there is no provision in the law that takes the public acceptance of what you are trying to censor into account.

IOW, you either have to censor everything, or nothing, and it's a slippery slope to totalitarianism.

Censorship is bad, mmmmkay?

 

What a ringing endorsement of the game.

 

As another poster said, your examples are all bogus as they are already covered by other laws, laws which western society is in very broad agreement with, eg. age of consent, incitement to violence,libel and slander.

Censorship involving film or artistic work however, is hugely controversial. The game in question doesn't have a positive message but who says it needs one?

The most annoying thing though is when a violent incident happens and the media look for a causal link to video games, yet society was far more violent in the recent past, before video games, anyone remember gang and football fan violence?

 

Making it illegal doesn't equal censoring it? I'd say it does.

Actually Neo-Nazi sites have been taken down (example) and some people who have created such sites have been charged with hate crimes.

Nope, not ok. It doesn't have to be - and shouldn't be - all or nothing. Take these forums for example: people have been banned and posts have been deleted - is that not a form of censorship? I think it is and it's a GOOD thing - I've seen forums where the mods were almost nonexistent and they were not places I wanted to visit or contribute to.

I'd say it would be more annoying to be beaten by some dumb kids that think it's a game (link) (& not even a mention of GTA in the story)

We humans seem to have never lacked the capacity to be "inhuman" to each other and I don't think that that will change anytime soon. Still, that doesn't mean we should encourage people to dwell on how they might be inhuman to others. From the descriptions of this "game" it doesn't sound like it was about much else.

 

A ban is something a little more universal than a censor... as someone said, it is illegal to make kiddy porn but it is not illegal to make kiddy hentai..... and about censoring.... it is more subjective, a ban is more objective....

That thing about hate crimes is utter BS, if i am white and hit a white guy because he was threatening me it is self defense, if i do this to a black guy it is a hate crime..... neo-nazi people should be free to express them selfs, it is up to us to not be influenced by their views.

About these forums being moderated, and thank god they are very well moderated (except on some occasions), they mainly delete that contain pornographic material and curse words, this is still a family forum, and ban guys that wont follow the rules, if you don't want to go by these rules then you go to another forum, if you want to play a game, see a movie or read a book and your country has banned it, you move to another coun.... oww wait.

As for beating homeless people.... for each homeless guy that is beaten because of video games.......... i cant even imagine the number of homeless people that are beaten down by drunk people, by groups of students (jocks and idiots), by the police (taser and police abuse), are mowed down by cars (cars and tobacco kill lots of people each day, therefore they should be considered illegal)...... and most of the time when the mass media blames video games for a crime, the people that committed that crime usually deny that and say it was because of something else.

Thank God i started playing violent games at the right time, i was much under 18, it was my "escape valve" for all that stress and madness of my daily life, being inhuman to virtual humans prevented me from being violent to real humans, that and being brought up by a responsible family system, something that is becoming more and more rare everywhere.
You don't need to play a game to be inhuman, just be your self, and if you need help read a book, watch the news, see a documentary or watch a movie, Manhunt it self is not an experience of "kill in the most violent way you can, because you can and want" it is more "if you don't kill these death row'ed criminals in the most bloody way possible, we will kill your family" and is rather cliché, i have seen various variants of this story in books and movies.

 

America is a "free country"***

Disclaimer: Conservative, religious and political interest groups have the ability to dictate.

 

Watch this and tell it doesn't sound exactly like the way people are looking at video games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuFhGR4QDd4 The biggest difference is that video games can be geared towards adults and in fact, most of the people playing video games are over 18. Corporate and government censorship of what I, a grown adult should be able to play, is just completely wrong and one step closer to the future I fear.

 

As do "liberal" and anti-religious political interest groups.