According to this article in GameDaily, new anti-videogame legislation is being scripted in both Iowa and Utah. However, Utah's law is even more ridiculous than some of the already hilarious legislations we have been seeing off late. Why? Well folks, believe it or not, it essentially classifies violent games as porn.
It says;
Meanwhile in Utah, State Rep. David Hogue (R-Riverton) is taking a different approach. Hogue's HB 0257 would seek to amend an existing Utah statute by adding an 'inappropriate violence' clause--such as violence exhibited in some of today's popular video games. Under the existing Utah statute the distribution or showing of pornography and explicit nudity to minors is a felony. Hogue is certainly not the first politician to compare violent video games to pornography. CA Assemblyman Leland Yee and countless others have put playing violent games in the same category as porn or smoking cigarettes.
What else? I have serious doubts if the blokes who are ranting against videogames know what they are talking about, I seriously do.
Thanks GameDaily
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