Matti Robinson
26 Jun 2006 15:22
The Entertainment Software Association and the Entertainment Merchants Association have filed a suit in Oklahoma against the bill HB3004, a law which redefines the harmful material for minors in video games to include video games with "inappropriate violence."
The law would strictly deny harmful material from minors, not even parents or guardians of the minor can neither show or give a video game containing "inappropriate violence." Neither would game retailers be able to show footage of a game of this type, unless the violence was hidden behind "blinder racks" used in sexually explicit magazines.
EMA president Bo Andersen was against the non-specific definitions of "inappropriate violence", but this wasn't enough for the president of the ESA, Douglas Lowenstein, who decried the bill in his statement. "They know the bill will be struck down, they know it's based on bad science, and they know it won't help parents do their jobs. What they won't tell voters: We just picked your pocket to the tune of a half-million dollars, the amount the state will have to reimburse the ESA after the inevitable decision is made to strike down the law."
Source:
GameSpot
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