This was posted on MSNBC a few days ago, but I didn't see anything about it when I did a search on the Kos. Anyway here's the article
MSNBC article More details on the flip.
After spending my early morning watching the Decentcy in the Media hearing, I thought that was the worst of it. I mean we are now at a point where there is no humanly possible way to be a bad parent. But then I saw this story. Of course Joe "My stupid views on censorship, along with Tipper's stupid view on censorship, is the reason we got Dubya" Lieberman is the only government offical to complain. Because a videogame involving the main character as a ZOMBIE, who eats people's brains is going to cause a bunch of high schoolers to kill their classmates and eat their brains. The problem with video games isn't the people who make them, the people who sell them, or the people who rate them. It's the moronic parents who buy them.
A friend of mine worked at a video game store and refuses to sell games to people based on the rating (i.e. if a 14 y/o tried to buy Grand Theft Auto, he will say no) and when a parent is buying the game, he will tell said parent about what's in the game. Then parent doesn't listen, buys the game anyway, sees little Johnny playing GTA, returns it to the store and bitches about the game.
This issue is bigger than a lot of people will admit. The scary thing is, it's not the Republicians who are the figureheads of this censorship movement. It's the Democrats. It's Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton. Not George Bush or Dick Santorum. And if Hillary runs, and the GOP runs a canidate who has middle support (McCain) an issue like censorship will be a difference maker. Look at the numbers of people who buy the GTA games, who watch rated R movies, who buy CD's with Parental Advisory stickers on them. If even half of them are of legal age to vote, I highly doubt they would vote for someone who would remove their favorite forms of entertainment. We really need to tell Joe, Hillary and everyone else who wants to get involved in this, to stop. Let parents be parents. If they are too stupid to read a rating system, then that's their own problem. It's not the government's problem.