Oh, Chicago. There was trouble earlier this year when the CTA pulled Grand Theft Auto IV ads from buses early, breaking contract. They pulled them following some violence in the city, but a settlement has those ads back up for the next six weeks, reports GamePolitics.
After the six-week GTA IV stretch is over, Chicago is pulling ads for M-rated games from the CTA's vechicles and properties, and then banning them forever. Check out this crap:
Last week, the CTA board voted to ban advertising for video games rated "M" and above. The ordinance, which takes effect Jan. 1, cites a "demonstrable correlation" between intensely violent video games and violent or aggressive behavior.
First off, there's no proven correlation between advertisements for violent video games and aggressive behavior. I'm embarrassed for the Chicago Transit Authority for this statement.
We're with GamePolitics in the suggestion that the ESA should get involved in this.
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7:42 PM on 11.20.2008 | 
As a Chicagoan, I am deeply embarrassed. No wonder the East and West coast consider us the unenlightened masses.
"you approach a bus
you notice it make's you aroused
You desperately try to correct your trouser mishap
Bonerquest!"
But we will rise up ... we will rise
/facepalm.
Ah, damn ... I have to clean off my keyboard now ...
A statement like that pisses me THE FUCK OFF because there is no God damn proof.
What is this country coming to?