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Fight the Power!

by Billy Berghammer - June 20, 1999, 6:28 pm EDT
Source: Nintendojo

I blame games.

You know, this whole little uproar about violence in video games is really a freaking joke. Okay, how do I really feel?! Heh! No soap box today :) . Anyways, add a point to the First Amendment's freedom video game team dealie. Nintendojo reports...

The United States House of Representatives began debate on the amendments to the juvenile justice measure Wednesday, voting down a proposal that would have curbed access by children to explicit sexual or violent material in video games and movies.

With a 282-146 vote, the House rejected the measure sponsored by Henry Hyde (R-Illinois), who openly complained on the House floor about the evils of the entertainment industry and demanded that his amendment would "slow the flood of toxic waste into our kids' minds."

On Thursday the House rejected a measure that would have forced video game manufacturers to come up with a labeling system for violent content, probably because the videogame industry already has a comprehensive rating system with easy to identify symbols for violent content.

Focus: The defeat of the bill marks a great victory for those of us who enjoy the medium of videogames and find ourselves unjustly persecuted by some conservative lawmakers who attacks the entertainment industry with a zeal unseen since McCarthy. Those of you unfamiliar with McCarthy, he was a US Senator so full of BS that without any solid evidence, labeled millions of innocent Americans as communist and as a result ruined their lives. In our times, we have these lawmarkers who have never picked up a videogame in their life and only decided to take on the videogame and the movie industry for purely political reasons. However, the game industry is certainly not without blame. Read Dojo's Editorial on violence and how videogames factor into the equation. Click Here(ds)

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