Posted on 07/13/2005 9:18:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has attacked violent video games as "a silent epidemic" among children, said she wants a federal investigation into one of the most popular, "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas."
Clinton, D-N.Y., is asking the Federal Trade Commission to probe how users of the game can access "graphic pornographic and violent content" for the game from the Internet.
In a letter dated Thursday to FTC chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, she also urged the agency to examine whether the game's rating of "M" for mature should be changed to an "Adults Only" rating.
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board, a self-regulatory ratings arm of the game software industry, is already investigating the issue.
New York's junior senator said it is time for the federal government to step in.
"There is no doubting the fact that the widespread availability of sexually explicit and graphically violent video games makes the challenge of parenting much harder," Clinton said in her missive seeking an FTC investigation.
The senator is also pushing legislation that would make it harder for young kids to get access to such content.
Even before her election to the Senate, Clinton spoke out against the amount of sexual and violent content available to children.
In March, Clinton delivered a speech to the Kaiser Family Foundation in which she called media sex and violence "a silent epidemic" among children, and sought federal research into how exposure to such graphic content affects young minds.
In that speech to media experts and child advocates, she singled out "Grand Theft Auto" as particularly harmful, saying it "has so many demeaning messages about women and so encourages violent imagination and activities and it scares parents.... They're playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them. You know, that's kind of hard to digest."
Bitchslap Hillary link
http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html
See post 21
Thanks! That was fun!
Go to any game website, and you'll find a bunch of kids attributing this kind of activity to the Republicans. Sure, there are some Republicans on board, but the big-name elected officials pushing to legislate video games generally have a D after their names, such as Lieberman, Schumer, and Clinton. Still, the recent and nightly Republican-bashing on X-Play will continue. Say it ain't so, Morgy baby. She was just pining for the Clinton years a couple nights ago. *sniff*
Who would have known ... Hillary is Tipper Gore
I was in Best Buy recently, and I saw a grandpa buying San Andreas for his young grandson. From the nervous way the kid was acting, I could tell he was putting one over on gramps and was hoping the clerk wouldn't make a comment. The clerk was so bored, I doubt if he even noticed what he was ringing up.
If it were a conservative, there wouldnt be any threads at all about this on FR.
If Hillary is sounding more like Tipper Gore, does that mean we have the new "Sonny and Scare" show coming to us in 2008? Gore-Sonny, Hildabeast-Scare
Not Hillary, but this lets you get a little more into it. And, it's a dirty ol' violent video game!
http://www.tequila.com.au/slap/slap.html
Wanna bet?
You're really not haPPy here at FR, are you? lol
Ahhh yea, GTA San Andreas.... I remember that game. It was cute. deffinatly not fo the kiddies though... that's why it gets a mature title. It's as tame as an "R" rated movie. :) Peace.
Thanks for the link! That was fun.
Wasn't it determined that something like 99% of the Superbowl complaints originated from the offices of Bozell's organization?
He probably tried to get Mom and Dad to buy it to no avail. I wonder how long he'll get to play it before they catch on.
Yep, that's a goodie! Thanks (I needed that - lol).
This from a woman who, every time she walks by a bank, the burglary alarms go off!
She also wants to increase the Army by 80,000 per www.Drudgereport.com
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