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Old 07-03-2006, 12:48 AM   #45
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Originally posted by Titan@Mar 6 2006, 08:17 PM
Freedom of speach? Umm.. yeah... right.. And i'm Saddam Husein.
Joe Lieberman spearheaded the congressional hearings on violence in videogames in the early-mid 90s. Remember the big ruckus over the Mortal Kombat games? The IDSA (now known as the ESA) was the industry organization that took on that disaster and comprimised with the goverment in the creation of the ESRB. Punch didn't really impress upon me that he fully knew what the hell he was quoting, but the ESA is an important organization in this regard.

Look at it from a different angle, since there was a nearly identical situation in a different industry around the same time: the music industry. The loathed RIAA went the exact same route in comprimising with congress during the PMRC fiasco and implementing the parental advisory sticker. Sure, it's still border-line unconsitutional in the way it's encouraged, but it has remained strictly voluntary and there is no federal legislation based upon the presence of the sticker.
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