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Gaming Guy



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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:36 am    Post subject: Censorship and free speech Reply with quote

Should book banning/burning make a comeback in the form of video games?
That's ultimately what it will come down to, each state determining what can and cannot be sold to minors.
We already saw some Take Two backlash in several different cases (forced to make inferior games like Outlaw Tennis).

Here is a scenario for you:
The (American, Canadian, Australian, German) government (including UK politics) may force store bought gaming content as a mild T only, even if it says M for mature.
The mature content is then sold online through a gaming branch of the PayPal service with age verification and parental passwords (like Simhost in the 90s).
This means everything might as well skip from a Teen rating to Adults Only, in 18 and over fan sites from company links.
Fortunately this scenario may not affect PS2 and Playstation, but it will encourage even more file sharing and piracy.
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