See also my SCOTUS link form two days ago.  I’m happy to read more op ed on it though :-0

From the Comments section of the link:

As long as we don’t make it hard for adults to get entertaining video games, regardless of content, and as long as we don’t restrain the freedom of expression of video game makers, it’s all good.

Well, first define “hard”—do I have to go to a computer game store in a shady area of town, risking my life if some crack-head thinks their addiction is more valuable than my need for “Chopper Gore Quest Gold Special Limited Edition”?

Again “restrain the freedom of expression of video game makers”—by removing them from the market, of course you restrain their freedom. How many of your local cinemas will ever show an NC-17 flick? Damn few I’ll wager. So many film ideas, intended for a mature audience, will never get made just because of this—the fact that they’ll never get distribution.

The gaming industry did the right thing with their own ratings. Sure, it’s not perfect, but this is one task I wouldn’t want to have governmental control in. And “Online Content Not Rated By ESRB” is fine and inevitable. Just as I can put up a web site for “Diarrhetic Pup Consumers Anonymous”, I can, and should, be able to tell my Touchlight buddies to eat my shit.

Ugh, Tap--yours has a much better title too. I am working pretty hardcore right now trying to get some videos done at the office. While the videos are exporting, my computer goes haywire. I thought we had a link up but couldn’t find it (and didn’t have the computer power to do a search) so I just posted this.

They are supposed to get me more RAM so I can run the video editing programs without issue, but there’s a little red tape to be scissored first.

I am against censorship. You had kids to become parents. Do your parental job. Do not depend on the guy at Video Game Outlet to do it for you. You brought them into this world, you are fucking responsible for them until they are 18, no ifs, ands or buts.

Caveat: some parents are hard pressed these days, and working three jobs can make supervision, well, difficult. So learn how the Parental Guidance functions of you PC/Mac/Linux Box work and use them.  Not perfect, but at least your sprogs will have to figure out how to circumvent them—bingo, Computer Scientist material, right there!

But this is an aid to your parental role, as gloveshot points out so well, not a replacement for it. Censorship, OTOH is simply a way for parents to feel less obliged to give a damn.