Stuff like this is also indicative of how bad the public perception of video games is getting. Every time I think games are beginning to get accepted by the rest of the world, some bizarre law is passed, or some misinformed/misguided parents group gets a lot of media attention.
Video games are in a very similar position as comic books in the 1950s after Frederic Wertham published Seduction of the Innocent.
For those of you unfamiliar with this book, it created a moral panic by arguing that comic books encourage delinquent behavior in children because comics contained gratuitous violence, gore, horror, crime, sex, bondage, drug use, murder, etc.
Sound familiar?
The result was the Comics Code Authority, which forced published comics to self censor (publishers weren't legally obligated to use the Code, but distributors would not carry a comic not endorsed by the CCA).
These are dangerous times for video games. For some reason, no one can wrap their heads around the fact that many games are not intended for children, and that people with addictive personalities probably shouldn't play games.
If something doesn't happen soon, video games are going to be marginalized into oblivion, or at least watered down into an uncreative shell of lost potential.
