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Monday, July 4, 2011
Joel Bakan, wrote an interesting opinion piece in The New York Times yesterday titled "Games People Play" on children are playing violent games online for free.
As pointed out by Mr. Bakan, all the buzz surrounding recent Supreme Court decision to repeal the California law banning the sale of violent games to minors, the fact of the matter is that people can play games violent online for free, without age limit gambling sites online for free.
Many of these sites have the look of casual gaming sites, but when you actually look at the games on offer, many of the games are not considered appropriate for children of all ages.
How is it inappropriate? Examples he cites the game in the AddictingGames website include Nickelodeon gave me a beating, bloody day, and the boneless girl.
Mr. Bakan AddictingGames is smart to focus on because it is a website run by Nick Games / Viacom, is quite ironic. However, violent games are just a small part of the catalog site and AddictingGames is not alone in offering such games. Go to any flash game website where anyone can play for free and without age limit and you will see the game like the exact same issue.
Even if the California law had not been shot, Mr. Bakan points out, would have applied to violent flash games online for free because the law was tied only to games sold and purchased.
In making the decision to overturn the California law that prohibits the sale of violent games to minors, the Supreme Court negotiate a strict reading of the First Amendment right of hypocrisy. Why not protected speech when it comes to an adult video that has violence against women, but freedom of expression is protected when you can sell and produce games where they can act with violent crimes against women ? (Note: it is not an exaggeration, some of these games allow you to hard-core act horrible crimes and anti-women and man, it's shocking). Not that I am against freedom of expression, I'm just saying, it is very hypocritical.
Noting the violence in situations of casual gaming sites targeting children, Mr. Bakan's just bringing up a very important issue that many parents do not know it exists.
Ironically, the New York Times could have a greater long-term impact on changing our attitudes toward violence in the casual gaming and flash of any Supreme Court or the legislation could. In a public relations office at the headquarters of Viacom at this time (as in Turner, in terms of violent games theAdultSwim site is), someone asks why there is a game called Boneless Girl in a place designed to providing free online entertainment for kids.
As pointed out by Mr. Bakan, all the buzz surrounding recent Supreme Court decision to repeal the California law banning the sale of violent games to minors, the fact of the matter is that people can play games violent online for free, without age limit gambling sites online for free.
Many of these sites have the look of casual gaming sites, but when you actually look at the games on offer, many of the games are not considered appropriate for children of all ages.
How is it inappropriate? Examples he cites the game in the AddictingGames website include Nickelodeon gave me a beating, bloody day, and the boneless girl.
Mr. Bakan AddictingGames is smart to focus on because it is a website run by Nick Games / Viacom, is quite ironic. However, violent games are just a small part of the catalog site and AddictingGames is not alone in offering such games. Go to any flash game website where anyone can play for free and without age limit and you will see the game like the exact same issue.
Even if the California law had not been shot, Mr. Bakan points out, would have applied to violent flash games online for free because the law was tied only to games sold and purchased.
In making the decision to overturn the California law that prohibits the sale of violent games to minors, the Supreme Court negotiate a strict reading of the First Amendment right of hypocrisy. Why not protected speech when it comes to an adult video that has violence against women, but freedom of expression is protected when you can sell and produce games where they can act with violent crimes against women ? (Note: it is not an exaggeration, some of these games allow you to hard-core act horrible crimes and anti-women and man, it's shocking). Not that I am against freedom of expression, I'm just saying, it is very hypocritical.
Noting the violence in situations of casual gaming sites targeting children, Mr. Bakan's just bringing up a very important issue that many parents do not know it exists.
Ironically, the New York Times could have a greater long-term impact on changing our attitudes toward violence in the casual gaming and flash of any Supreme Court or the legislation could. In a public relations office at the headquarters of Viacom at this time (as in Turner, in terms of violent games theAdultSwim site is), someone asks why there is a game called Boneless Girl in a place designed to providing free online entertainment for kids.
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