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- (Images: 'Grand Theft Auto IV' hits the streets)
- (Images: 'Grand Theft Auto IV' hits the streets)Garbage!!!!!!!!!!!What a bunch of crap designed for low class thugs to play at being cool!RE: 'Grand Theft Auto IV' still teaching 'kids' how to be better criminalsFor fear of starting a firestorm of opinion, games like the GTA franchise shouldn't be available to...
- Tags: Games, game, Grand Theft Auto IV, GTA, Grand Theft, Grand Theft Auto
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Parents speak out on computer-game violence and ratings
- Parents speak out on computer-game violence and ratingsMy peers? I hope not."Now that our children are getting older and wanting to play some of the more adult games, we are more aware of the violence""When I was younger, I loved blood and gore in my games... Violence in games...
- Tags: Games, violence, game
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- TV, film, and game violence seen as a threat
- TV, film, and game violence seen as a threatNotice this is based on nothing new.This is garbage science.They study other studies and decide that they have discovered something new when they are simply restating other people's results.You will notice that social soiences types are notorious for over-footnoting their work and...
- Tags: game, TV, violence
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Senators urge tougher rating for 'Manhunt 2' game
- Senators urge tougher rating for 'Manhunt 2' gameThat would be the problem in a nutshell...It's when they ARE getting something done...That our rights and freedoms are most at risk!And what business is this of Senators ?....I wish these people would stick to their JOBS! They just might get something...
- Tags: Games, game, violence
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- Who's next? NY seeks a game-violence law that will pass judicial muster
- Who's next? NY seeks a game-violence law that will pass judicial musterSex and Violence1. I could care less if kids, including my own, watched sexually explicit videos. First of all, it might get them to ask questions; questions that they aren't currently asking their parents. Of course...
- Tags: violence
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Who's next? NY seeks a game-violence law that will pass judicial muster
- A judge's recent decision that California's law regulating video games is unconstitutional -- the eighth such decision such 2001 -- shows that courts are unwilling to allow states to limit free speech based on concerns about violence, The New York Times reports."It's more than a trend," said Ronald Collins, a...
- Tags: Game, Violence, Law, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- YouTube should have been allowed to show NJ toll plaza death video
- YouTube should have been allowed to show NJ toll plaza death videoThe real questionWho took the public video and digitized it and put it up on the video file sites? This was probably a public worker they should be the one that is fined for taking the public work...
- Tags: Corporate communications, video, violence, Public Funds, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- The French Disconnection (a.k.a. Vous n'êtes pas un YouTube journaliste)
- The French Disconnection (a.k.a. Vous n'êtes pas un YouTube journaliste)What are they afraid of?The French have been pushing for an international convention on regulation of journalists for at least 20 years. The idea is that "responsible journalists" will get licenses and have "freedom of the Press," while the unlicensed...
- Tags: violence, French Disconnection, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- The French Disconnection (a.k.a. Vous n'êtes pas un YouTube journaliste)
- Lawmaking in France continues to be an enigma. When the country first looked like it was on the verge of forcing Apple to open up its FairPlay digital rights management scheme, lawmakers eventually settled for a toothless policy that accomplished nothing in the end. Now comes this from Macworld:The French...
- Tags: Berlind, Blogging, General, Government, Legal
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Trinidad and Togago students post sex and violence to YouTube
- Trinidad and Togago students post sex and violence to YouTubeeducationthe problem is not cellphone, the problem is what our educationists have done to our kids!educationists?I didn't even know that was a word. Having said that, it is ridiculous to blame the "specialists in theory of education." That's like...
- Tags: Togago, Togago student, violence, problem-I, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-30
- Trinidad and Togago students post sex and violence to YouTube
- To ban or not to ban those pesky cellphones at school. Thats what Trinidad and Tobago schools are pondering after students began posting lewd and violent videos of students in the classrooms, reports Newsday. Schools everywhere are grappling with the new issues that cellphones and other technology present...
- Tags: Education Technology, Social networking
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- Violent games blamed for German school attack
- Violent games blamed for German school attackWhile the games are not soley to blamethey do assist with the de-humanizing and de-sensitizing of killing and war. This is how you make future warriors in today's age. BUT the games are not the sole source of the problem. You will notice that...
- Tags: Games, game, violence
- Discussion threads 2006-11-21
- Images: 'Bully' in action
- Take-Two's unreleased video game is involved in a court struggle over free speech and violence in games.
- Tags: Games, violence, game, video game, video
- Image galleries 2006-10-12
- Banning violent games unconstitutional
- The makers of violent video games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D or Mortal Kombat must be jumping for their joysticks, as a U.S. District Court ruled that states have no right to bar distribution of materials simply because they show violent behavior, reports Associated Press. U.S. District Judge...
- Tags: game, video, video game
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Sex, violence and open government in Mass.
- Sex, violence and open government are setting tongues wagging as they used to say in rural Massachusetts. First the sex, as related by the Salem News. Former Newburyport mayor Mary Anne Clancy admitted two years ago that she had exchanged "inappropriate" e-mails with Nock Middle School teacher Jason...
- Tags: Brian Clancy, government
- Blog posts 2006-08-01
- Despite controversy, 'booth babes' still prowl E3
- Despite controversy, 'booth babes' still prowl E3No_Ax Was At Every BoothIt's his only chance during the year to get within 2 feet of a real woman...not counting the inflatable one he has in his desk.;)Despite controversy, 'booth babes' still prowl E3Well no duh. Any of the exhibitors at E3...
- Tags: Games, violence
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- Mich. law can't stop violent video games
- Parents and schools are worried about violent video games, and several states - including Michigan - have passed laws trying to stop them. Last week, reports News.com, another such law hit the skids as a federal judge through Michigan's law out on First Amendment grounds. "Video games are a...
- Tags: video, game, video game, George Caram Steeh
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- A History of Violence Screensaver (zip)
- Check the screensaver from this Oscar nominated film. Tom Stall is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner....
- Tags: Violence, New Line Cinema
- Software downloads 2006-02-22
- More legal woes for 'Grand Theft Auto' maker
- More legal woes for 'Grand Theft Auto' makerSad for and not sorry for Take TwoBusiness shareholders taking the legal heat to the creators for a monetary loss. Look, I’ve got little to no problem with a mature or adult game (we’ve grown up on games and should have grown...
- Tags: Games, Grand Theft Auto, game, violence
- Discussion threads 2006-02-16
- Photos: In search of clues on 'Last Call Poker'
- Behind the poker game is a saga of violence and greed told through video, text, audio and "Tombstone Hold 'Em" tournaments.
- Tags: greed, tournament, violence, audio, game, video
- Image galleries 2005-12-15
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