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Senator Brownback can die.
19 years ago
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Alright, new Journal. Needed a good attention grabbing headline. This is the more PC version. Original was "Senator Brownback can get cancer and die", but I cut the cancer part due to it being a touchy issue with some people (such as my mother, who's father died of Cancer back in the 90's)
But I digress.
http://gamepolitics.com/2006/09/27/.....ill-in-senate/
Read this and weep for the death of freedom of speech for Electronic media.
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) has sponsored legislation in the United States Senate which would require the ESRB to play games in their entirety before assigning an age rating.
Brownback�s Truth in Video Game Rating Act (S.3935) would appear to be the Senate version of a House bill of the same name proposed by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL).
�The current video game ratings system needs improvement,� Brownback said, �because reviewers do not see the full content of games and don�t even play the games they are supposed to rate. For video game ratings to be meaningful and worthy of a parent�s trust, the game ratings must be more objective and accurate.�
Brownback�s measure would mandate the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to administer the requirement for a complete play-through before rating.
�Game reviewers must have access to the entire game for their ratings to accurately reflect a game�s content,� Brownback added.
The bill would also direct the FTC to define parameters for describing video game content as well as defining what kind of behavior by the game industry would break those rules.
Brownback also would have the Government Accountability Office (GAO) evaluate the efficiency of the ESRB system as well as the potential for establishing an independent rating body with no ties to the industry. Universal systems spanning movie, TV and games would also be looked into.
The conservative Brownback has been very active on video game issues in recent times. He worked with Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) on game-related bills such as the recently-passed CAMRA legislation and held committee hearings on video games in the Senate earlier this year.
Full text of Brownback�s new bill is not yet available. We�ll post it when it goes up on the Congressional system.
You can find a very eloquent post about this on Tycho's rant on www.penny-arcade.com
Basic summary is that apparently the ESRB isn't doing a good enough job to police custom created content, easter eggs that aren't included in the main run of the game, so they are going to dissolve it and set up a mock govemrent agency to police games and shut down ones that they disagree with.
But I digress.
http://gamepolitics.com/2006/09/27/.....ill-in-senate/
Read this and weep for the death of freedom of speech for Electronic media.
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) has sponsored legislation in the United States Senate which would require the ESRB to play games in their entirety before assigning an age rating.
Brownback�s Truth in Video Game Rating Act (S.3935) would appear to be the Senate version of a House bill of the same name proposed by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL).
�The current video game ratings system needs improvement,� Brownback said, �because reviewers do not see the full content of games and don�t even play the games they are supposed to rate. For video game ratings to be meaningful and worthy of a parent�s trust, the game ratings must be more objective and accurate.�
Brownback�s measure would mandate the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to administer the requirement for a complete play-through before rating.
�Game reviewers must have access to the entire game for their ratings to accurately reflect a game�s content,� Brownback added.
The bill would also direct the FTC to define parameters for describing video game content as well as defining what kind of behavior by the game industry would break those rules.
Brownback also would have the Government Accountability Office (GAO) evaluate the efficiency of the ESRB system as well as the potential for establishing an independent rating body with no ties to the industry. Universal systems spanning movie, TV and games would also be looked into.
The conservative Brownback has been very active on video game issues in recent times. He worked with Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) on game-related bills such as the recently-passed CAMRA legislation and held committee hearings on video games in the Senate earlier this year.
Full text of Brownback�s new bill is not yet available. We�ll post it when it goes up on the Congressional system.
You can find a very eloquent post about this on Tycho's rant on www.penny-arcade.com
Basic summary is that apparently the ESRB isn't doing a good enough job to police custom created content, easter eggs that aren't included in the main run of the game, so they are going to dissolve it and set up a mock govemrent agency to police games and shut down ones that they disagree with.
Hmm, and he worked with Hillary Clinton and Joe Liberman, no big surprise there. Frankly, I don't think this jackass's proposal is going to pass.
A few of them are Massive state sponsored corporation (Haliburton)
Stripping away of basic freedoms (such as the loss of habeus corpus, or the loss of the right to privacy under the administration, to "protect us from terror")
Ultra-nationalism (have you SEEN the hardcore Bush supporters? They equate him to BEING the spirit of America, and the hand of God on Earth)
There were a few others, but can' recall off the top of my head what they are. But almost each and every one described the way the current administration operates as fascist. Now using it as an insult at all, just using it as an acurate descriptor of the system currently in place.
Just cause its fucking hilarious:
http://www.fleshbot.com/sex/sex-toy.....lug-203631.php