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Bill: Video Game Age Restriction Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2450
Description[?]:
| An act to require retailers to enforce age restrictions on video games. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of video games.
Old value:: The government does not regulate video games.
Current: The government does not maintain laws as to age limitation for purchasing video games, although it does require a content rating to be clearly displayed on the box.
Proposed: The government maintains strict age limitation laws that require proof of age before sales of video games may be made.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:18:23, August 31, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Video Game Age Restriction Act |
| Message | We limit children's access to pornography already as it is harmful to them. Surely it is only right that we similarly restrict video games if we also see it as being harmful? |
| Date | 18:05:46, August 31, 2007 CET | From | Bull Moose Party | To | Debating the Video Game Age Restriction Act |
| Message | Support. |
| Date | 18:20:14, August 31, 2007 CET | From | Tukarali Communist Party | To | Debating the Video Game Age Restriction Act |
| Message | Against. Pornography isn't harmful to children. Let the parents figure this stuff out for themselves. |
| Date | 18:29:34, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Video Game Age Restriction Act |
| Message | We can support a middle ground proposal: "The government does not maintain laws as to age limitation for purchasing video games, although it does require a content rating to be clearly displayed on the box." |
| Date | 23:55:34, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Video Game Age Restriction Act |
| Message | see also: http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=137273 |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 178 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 168 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 153 |
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