dsister44 said:
i see your point. but i still believe this bill is a good thing. do you really believe that this will do any damage to the esrb? this is how the goverment works, they pass a bill then they add amendments to to it later. |
They've already amended the bill a few times and they'd probably do it some more. I don't know about damaging the ESRB itself, but it'll hurt the effectiveness of informing customers (such as parents) of the ratings. If hanging up a poster that lists the ESRB's ratings counts as advertising and the retailer takes it down to prevent the potential fine if they did ever sell an m-rated game to a minor, to what end has the bill benefitted parents with children?
I agree that certain games can be inappropriate for children to play, but so far none of the bills do have done any good. Especially when they're found to be unconstitutional. I've heard that the score is now video games - 7, lawmakers - 0.
Instead of somebody like Jack Thompson saying something useful such as "Violent video games can be inappropriate for children so parents, please check the rating on the box and instead choose a game that's more suitable for you're child. Retailers, please make sure to check for ID's when selling M-rated games" we instead get "I was on 60 minutes and wrote a book about this sort of thing, violent video games train people to murder others. They must be banned!"
