Friday, February 24, 2006
Games As Porn Bill Passes House
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=11949
Crap, crap, crap. And I thought that bill was dead. I'm overwhelmed by the idiocy of my state government to pass this bill.
They've ammended it to define things EXTREMELY narrowly - which means you can't call me a pornographer yet. But I also know how certain extremists love to sneak in after the fact and make ammendments to laws (like they did with this one) and slowly mutate it. "Oh, we'll just change a couple of 'ands' back to 'ors' - that's not a big deal is it?"
I'm both embarassed by my state, and frustrated. And very angry.
I don't think hyper-violent games are things kids should be playing. NO KIDDING! I don't believe that they'll turn kids into violent sociopaths, any more than playing the board game, "Operation" will turn them into qualified surgeons. But I still don't want to expose my kids to that sort of thing. But I don't want the government regulating it with their usual ham-fisted (lack of) panache. HOPEFULLY this will not pass the Senate (but at a 56-8 victory in the House, I have lost all faith in the intelligence of my state leadership), but if it does, I have little doubt it will die horribly at the judicial level.
I just wanna know who's running against Representative Hogue in the next election, and how can I help his or her campaign?
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- posted by The Rampant Coyote @ 2:52 PM (Permalink)
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So, does this mean that my Saturday morning cartoons are the next target??? Just think of the things that go on in Tom and Jerry or the Simpsons for that matter.
And I think television has a much higher violence count than most video games... and much more realistic, too.
For contact info on Representative Hogue:
Hogue, David L.
13150 S 2900 W
RIVERTON, UT 84065
dhogue@rep52.com
Yep, Jay, looks lkke he also represents your very own city.
And I think television has a much higher violence count than most video games... and much more realistic, too.
For contact info on Representative Hogue:
Hogue, David L.
13150 S 2900 W
RIVERTON, UT 84065
dhogue@rep52.com
Yep, Jay, looks lkke he also represents your very own city.
I've already emailed him once explaining my position. He did not opt to respond.
He also had the Utah Merchants Association (?) come talk to him & the rest of the committee. That caused them to quickly ammend the bill. So now it doesn't have teeth... but if it gets made into law, I fully believe it WILL gradually get ammended back into its original form.
Someone suggested today that the legislative branch of the government should be fiscally responsible for legal costs every time one of their laws is declared unconstitutional. Maybe then they'd actually perform some due dilligence of some sort making sure these laws are legal. As it is, they just go ahead an pass 'em knowing that they are unlikely to hold up in court, but it doesn't matter. They can pat themselves on the back in public stating how they stood up for (insert position here) - it wasn't their fault that they were thwarted by that crummy Bill of Rights thing!
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He also had the Utah Merchants Association (?) come talk to him & the rest of the committee. That caused them to quickly ammend the bill. So now it doesn't have teeth... but if it gets made into law, I fully believe it WILL gradually get ammended back into its original form.
Someone suggested today that the legislative branch of the government should be fiscally responsible for legal costs every time one of their laws is declared unconstitutional. Maybe then they'd actually perform some due dilligence of some sort making sure these laws are legal. As it is, they just go ahead an pass 'em knowing that they are unlikely to hold up in court, but it doesn't matter. They can pat themselves on the back in public stating how they stood up for (insert position here) - it wasn't their fault that they were thwarted by that crummy Bill of Rights thing!
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