The European Union (known in some circles as The Nazi Party 2.0) has given the videogames industry two years in order to protect children better. Apparently, game companies are not doing enough to replace parents and teachers and now have to find a way to spy on children 24/7 to make sure their products are not being bought. That was sarcasm, that last sentence.
"Creators have to enjoy freedom of expression but at the same time it's an industry that impacts society," stated EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, possibly while annexing the Sudetenland. EU Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kuneva added, "When children go out to play today they enter the world of joysticks. We are not quite sure where they go and there is real anxiety from parents."
Kids still use joysticks, according to the EU.
The ELSPA has come out and said that it thinks the PEGI rating system is robust enough and would like it adopted more in the UK. The European Commission admitted that there is no strong evidence linking violence in videogames to the behavior of children, but wants a code of conduct for the games industry as a "precaution."
The EU doesn't seem to have said what would happen if the industry doesn't protect children better, probably because it doesn't know. What I know, however, is that making the games industry assume obligation for the protection of children is silly. It should be the game store's job not to sell games to minors, the parent's job not to buy games for minors, and the games industry's job?
Make games.
That is where its responsibility begins and ends.
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1:23 PM on 04.22.2008
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Won't somebody please think of the children!!
While I despise the right in the US (I'm a moderate), all one needs to do is look to Europe to see what happens when allowing unfettered left-wing politics to dominate.
Seems like common sense is in short supply on both sides of the big pond :(
...and they'll probably be serial killers
That's a great sentence.
Luckily I have to work nightshift, otherwise I'd be pissed as hell by the end of that show probably...
Its ridiculous though... the manhunt series to me feels like a statement, you know lets see how far we can go... but the 'outside world' has totally misunderstood it and now a few of those scaremongers are making everybody believe that every single gamer is a blood-thirsty-homicidal-maniac just waiting for that 'trigger' from that one game before going all high-school-shoot-out...
I don't understand what EU expects. Fucking morons.
Also, ^ Lol at MechaMonkey
dont these guys look at numbers? Is their job, and they dont do it.