Friday Morning
Well, Narthex beat me to the punch on the strangest news I've read this morning. Go read that, then come back here.
Okay. Senator Hillary Clinton is on the warpath against Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, asking the Federal Trade Commission to review a mod for the game that enables the player to engage in simulated sex. In case you glossed over that, I said a 'mod'. That's right, someone, somewhere, wrote an add-on to San Andreas, which apparently violates the EULA, that puts explicit sex into the game.
Why the FTC is investigating this, is beyond me. What some 16 year old kids does to a game is beyond the ability of the developer or publisher to control. There was a blurb in that article that asks whether or not the mod added the explicit scenes, or simply unlocked code that was already in the game. Either way, I don't see the government's responsibility here.
Society cannot be controlled or regulated by governmental action. If people cannot take responsibility for (or control) their actions, I cannot expect the government on any level to do that, either. There are many things 'wrong' with our current society, at least when viewed from a podium constructed of past ideals and norms, but investigating video games is not a 'fix'.
So Senator? Go find something more constructive to do. There's a war on, remember? Or, if you want to worry about something domestic, work on education, and stop fretting over video games.
Okay. Senator Hillary Clinton is on the warpath against Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, asking the Federal Trade Commission to review a mod for the game that enables the player to engage in simulated sex. In case you glossed over that, I said a 'mod'. That's right, someone, somewhere, wrote an add-on to San Andreas, which apparently violates the EULA, that puts explicit sex into the game.
Why the FTC is investigating this, is beyond me. What some 16 year old kids does to a game is beyond the ability of the developer or publisher to control. There was a blurb in that article that asks whether or not the mod added the explicit scenes, or simply unlocked code that was already in the game. Either way, I don't see the government's responsibility here.
Society cannot be controlled or regulated by governmental action. If people cannot take responsibility for (or control) their actions, I cannot expect the government on any level to do that, either. There are many things 'wrong' with our current society, at least when viewed from a podium constructed of past ideals and norms, but investigating video games is not a 'fix'.
So Senator? Go find something more constructive to do. There's a war on, remember? Or, if you want to worry about something domestic, work on education, and stop fretting over video games.
posted by DFMerrick at 09:36
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