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Bill: Video Game Regulation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolucia Partio de Koburo
Status[?]: defeated
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: March 2510
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of video games.
Old value:: 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.
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 does not regulate video games.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:16:59, December 31, 2007 CET | From |  Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | What the hell is wrong with a simple age rating on the box? -Arnold Deniu |
| Date | 23:33:35, December 31, 2007 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | Its pointless and unnecessary? |
| Date | 23:56:08, December 31, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | No it is informative and neccescary |
| Date | 00:17:37, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | No it isn't. |
| Date | 14:03:06, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | Instead of saying: No, No, No and no, you should come up with some evidence. And don't try to tell me that this is the government controlling the people, because the warning labels are determined by independent adjudicators. -Francis MGrath CRP spokesperson on Finance |
| Date | 14:29:20, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | Hahahaha, its utterly laughable that YOU would demand 'evidence' when you never give the rest of us the same. An age rating is not a system of control? Are you fucking kidding me? That's sociology 101 right there. And yes, it is the GOVERNMENT controlling people, because they are the ones who REQUIRE such a label on the box. Try reading properly for a change. |
| Date | 15:01:36, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | Requiring a label in the box is not government control, it is in fact the government informing it's citenzenry |
| Date | 15:09:13, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | No, it is a method of social control. There is absolutely nothing informative about an age rating. It exists solely in order to try and control the population. |
| Date | 15:11:18, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | "So allowing parents to see if a game they are going to buy for their child contains violence is controlling the population? Ludicrous...." -John Farrow IV |
| Date | 15:16:11, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | "Yes, as you just admitted. A parent deciding whether a game is suitable for their child based on an age rating is a method of social control. Thanks for playing. If they want to know if the game contains violence, not that it matters, they can read the description, a review in a magazine, google it, anything really, we live in an informative age for crying out loud. Ignorance is not an excuse. We need to stop pandering to incompetent fools who want to blame society for the shitty job they did raising their brats." - Heinz Faber |
| Date | 15:25:30, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | "That is a terrible argument. Most people in Cobura work for a living, the do not have the time to research game reviews of whatever it is, the rating on the box is helpful to them" |
| Date | 15:30:44, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | "In what way? How is it helpful? They can't read the description on the box before they make a purchase? Stop insulting their intelligence." |
| Date | 15:32:16, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | "And by the way children watching violence does affect them, it maynot have affected you but it can do a lot of damage, particularily to young children. there have been numerous cases of children affected by it." -Carole Farrow |
| Date | 15:33:36, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | "Games are not going to say that they contain a lot of violence, otherwise parents wouldn't buy it for their childen" |
| Date | 15:34:04, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | "No it doesn't. It has absolutely zero effect. I demand to see evidence of these so-called 'numerous' cases, which can no doubt be dismissed without much effort." |
| Date | 15:34:25, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | that was about the violence part obviously |
| Date | 15:36:02, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | "So, you continue to admit it's a method of social control? You're making it too easy." |
| Date | 15:40:16, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | Btw, this: 'Games are not going to say that they contain a lot of violence' is fucking stupid beyond belief. It doesn't really take much effort to tell if a game contains violence. If you saw two games for sale, one called 'Care Bears Flower Arrangement' and one called 'Infidel Killer! Allah Akbar!" Could you take a guess if there is violence in either? |
| Date | 15:41:22, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | Well those bears look kind of shifty to me...... |
| Date | 15:44:43, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | Is it me or has my grammar gone to shit today? I guess I'm not totally sober yet....agggghhhh |
| Date | 15:47:45, January 01, 2008 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Video Game Regulation |
| Message | Ha! Ha! The CRP wins again! *Throws water over RPCs head* |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 144 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 276 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 80 |
| Random fact: "Game mechanics comes first." For example, if a currently-enforced bill sets out one law, then a player cannot claim the government has set out a contradictory law. |
| Random quote: "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan |