Utah Advertising Bill Approved By Committee, To Be Voted On By Utah House
Posted by Liz Surette on February 24, 2009After viewing a montage of sexually risque footage from Grand Theft Auto IV, 10 out of 13 House committee members approved HB 353 for consideration by all 75 members of the House.
If you need some background, see our previous article on the subject here.
As always, the most incendiary footage has been chosen to represent the entire game industry before a legislative body, although here the issue is advertising rather than content–even though the latter plays a role in the former. Using this positively brilliant tactic to mislead and manipulate, Gayle Ruzicka (testifying on behalf of the bill) pleaded with the committee to “protect our children from the violence, from the filthy pornography…”(1)
Other testimony targetted websites that sell M-rated games without age verification, even though for my part I have never seen any notices on BestBuy.com saying that they won’t mail a game to me if I am under 18. To think that a credit card-holder would be an adult, or that a parent who has given their child a credit card has tacitly consented to the purchase? Ridiculous. But reasonableness is not the issue–the issue is “false” advertising, so targeting those who do not advertise such a policy seems fruitless–but unfortunately it was enough to convince the committee.
Boy, did Rockstar pick a wonderful time to put full-frontal nudity in DLC.
More on this as it develops.
(1) GamePolitics has posted a recording of the testimony from which I quote. (Seriously, is there anything those guys can’t do?)
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i saw the full article at GP and read through the utah committe’s ranting about the game… they never actually looked at it. they never even looked at the box it came in. they have no clue what the hell they’re talking about yet STILL they declare it as the prime cause of every violent event in history. this is Mass Effect’s entirely fictional ‘orgasmic rape’ fiasco all over again.
i have seen nothing but a pure, malicious idiocy from every single one of these ‘moral crusaders’ or ‘culture warriors’, whatever they call themselves. there is NOTHING moral about them lying through their a**holes about forms of media they’re too lazy to research supposedly causing the world’s ills, and there is NOTHING cultured about them molesting the bodies of a school shooting while claiming to be ’saving lives’. come on Mr Thompson, admit it – Columbine, V-Tech and Salt Lake were all fantasies come true to you.
of course, the crusaders aren’t going to say it themselves – they barely have enough functioning brain matter between them to keep your hearts beating, there is no way they’ll realize that theirs is a campaign of pure evil. They openly try to get criminals out of jail while trying to frame civilians for their crimes, they openly slander, stalk, threaten and wish death on anyone that exposes their law-breaking agendas, they waste tax money on badly thought-out censorship bills in the middle of a recession… and they say WE’RE the thuggish death cultists?
let’s be honest, people. if we want to see anything resembling a sane and even-handed debate about forms of entertainment and alleged similarities with real-life crimes, then the Jack THompsons of the world – the massacre-chasing inbred savages who are guilty as charged of encouraging and trivilizing the real-life crimes to begin with – need to be banned and burned like they want to do to the rest of the planet. if there are any more humane alternatives i haven’t yet heard them.
THEIR hearts, i mean. we know the snuff loving ‘proectors of teh childrens’ don’t actually have hearts, but they claim to have heart conditions, so what they say must be true, right?
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