New Bill Imposes “Aggressive Behaviour” Warning Label on Games
POSTED BY admin // March 21, 2012 // 8 responses
Gamepolitics.com is reporting that a new bill, H.R. 4204 is being proposed by Congressmen Joe Baca and Frank Wolf which would impose a mandatory warning label on all video games. The warning label would be similar to ones found on cigarettes and would read: “WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior.”
The presumed link between violence and video games, and the ensuing analogy to proven harm from cigarettes, is ridiculous. This label would apply to all games from Tetris to Call of Duty and propagates the myth that video games are somehow responsible for violent behavior.
Expect an update from us on this issue as we closely track it.
8 Comments on "New Bill Imposes “Aggressive Behaviour” Warning Label on Games"
I’d like to know what research this is based on, who asked for the research, and which lobby group funded the researchers, for starters? ;/
You have to be kidding me? Not this now. :s
…..They should focus on their country debt instead of creating an warning label for games.
While we are wasting our money on this type of thing, why not come up with labels for vehicles that say something along the lines of, “Using this apparatus is linked to increased aggression and mortality rates.”? At least, at this point we would have used are money for something equally useless… but true.
Honestly, how many more ” test” do they need to see there is no connection between violence and games? Yes, let’s just through logic and history out of the window. Because we all know the past wars was all because of sore losers at video games. -_- PROVIDE evidence between the links, don’t just throw random make-believe facts in the air. Just leave video games alone, have they done anything to hurt you?
This is ridiculous! People continue to treat video games as though they are some kind of dangerous drug. I’ve seen more violent and more sexually explicit stuff watching hockey games and in real life then playing any video game.
They would be better of putting such a warning on alcohol or sports.
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