Boston Mayor: Video Games are like Porn
January 10th, 2007 by Kit Allen
Live in Massachusetts? Well Boston Mayor Thomas Menino may make life difficult for you soon if you are a minor. The Mayor, with help from the prolific Jack Thompson, has proposed a piece of legislature that places video games in the same category as pornography.
If a video game meets any of these criteria, than youth will not be able to purchase the title.
‘Depicting violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community, so as to appeal predominantly to the morbid interest in violence of minors.
Is patently contrary to prevailing standards of adults in the county where the offense was committed as to suitable material for such minors.
Lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.‘
As much fun as it would be to pin the approval of this bill this to the characteristic Mayor, the fact that Jack Thompson is involved in this usually means that the amount of media attention that the issue will generate, will ensure that the bill never be passed.
