Here's what really ticks me off about the video game crusaders.

[JackDragna]

I think the games are a target because the young are trampled on in our society and have no rights. The people who buy and play video games are pretty much in the under-40 demographic. Do such people have money to go to $1000-a-plate luncheons with senatorial candidates? Do they have the time to organize against people acting against their own best interest? Some do, but most do not. Those in the height of power, therefore, use the boogeyman of video games to scare others. Hey, why talk about real issues when there's some new video game with too much sex in it?

Our society devours its young. In the end, the video game issue is the tip of the iceberg for the problems facing young people. We ruin their economic opportunities, we lure them into the military under false pretenses, we do little to improve the education system on which they rely to be prepared for society, we have woefully underfunded child services..I could do on and on. In the scheme of things, video games may not seem like much, but whenever someone like Hillary goes after video games, it reminds me that the young in this country are merely a resource to be exploited.

I'm one of those under-40 types and I'm sick of this. I'm sick of people using us.

[Greeby]

1. Where is our Frank Zappa

When the PMRC were launching their crusade against rock music, and pressuring their husbands (most notably, then Senator Al Gore) to hold committee hearings, Frank showed up in 85 to demolish the smokescreen. Here's a link to the testimony:

http://downlode.org/etext/zappa.html

And here's him on Crossfire mocking a censorship advocate a year lster in 86 (Beware, contains the Douchebag Of Liberty throughout)

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2658805

And again in 87:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2664570

[jzodda]

2. Crusade against vid games is going nowhere

Why? Well there are more and more gamers and as we age who says we stop gaming? I am in my mid 30s and while I play games alot less I still do so. The new generations are even more attached to it then mine was. Soon there wont be many non gamers left-and those are the ones who are going nutso over the games :)

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Dumb move to attack their toys hey

Guess Democrats at it again, how to get involve in stupid issue that you cant win.

[cynatnite]

4. I don't think they are worried about the over 18 crowd

It's about what is age appropriate and video games crosses a large portion under the age of 18. These games are targeted for kids when they shouldn't have them.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. This is a rehash of congressional examination of song lyrics from the

1980s when Tipper Gore went after Prince's Darling Nickey and others. It resulted in lyrics having to be printed on the back of LPs which was a short-lived victory as the industry moved towards CDs within a year -- and hey, how easy is it to print and read lyrics on the back of a CD without a microscope?

Yeah, this is the dems trying to prove to republican voters that they are as "moral" as the republicans.

*Yawn!*

[mzteris]

6. so you're ok

with the "hidden sex" in the video games?

You're okay with the gratuitous violence and demeaning role of women prevalent on "most" video games?

You're okay with the fact that kids are wasting their time and becoming complete couch potatoes by playing vids 24/7? Contributing to the "sound bite" generation that has to be stimulated by pretty flashing graphics and sound effects in order to get the old neurons to fire at all? (And in the process possibly being a contributory factor to the "epidemic" of supposed ADD kids because they haven't developed the ability to actually THINK without some bright/flashy graphic in front of them?)

You're okay with the fact that selling this tripe for however much - or little money - plays right into your statement "it reminds me that the young in this country are merely a resource to be exploited."

You must not have kids yet.

[thinkingwoman]

7. I have kids

and I'm ok with adults making their own decisions about entertainment for themselves and their children.

Violence against women was prevalent in society long before there were talking pictures.