Censorship is just like a double-edge sword. If used properly, it serves as a valuable weapon. Governments and other regulatory institutions must learn to use it judiciously.…
In several court cases states and municipalities have attempted to pass legislation to restrict the sale of violent video games without parental consent. The video game industry have actively worked to nullify any such laws and have always succeeded thus far. Claiming that the parents are responsible for the decision of what their children play, the games are rated so that the parents can acknowledge what is age appropriate. They also claim that to regulate the material in their games is a violation of the 1st amendment rights (Anderson, Gentile and Buckley…
The two sides of the issue are that violent video games are bad for kids and those violent video games are good/ok for children(glazer, 2). Now I believe that very young kids should not play violent video games because they are annoying during online play. You have to be a certain age to play online as well so they are also being given online accounts. However bad that is I…
The problems right now is that ESRB is not strong enough. ESRB should be more restrictive in rating violent video games. According to Whiting, the ESRB’s decision to start hiring new gamer raters instead of non-gamer raters because “Previously, the ESRB's hiring policy has been to avoid recruiting from the ranks of actual gamers, the theory being that people soaked in game culture and aesthetics might not be the best judges of character when it came to what's appropriate for little Johnny”. Often younger teens get their hands on the video games that are made for adult consumers. I found out that the current ESRB system is ineffective in protecting children from purchasing inappropriate games (Parvaz). According to the “Video Games and Violence”…
John comes home from school everyday, does his homework and plays call of duty. Later he grow up and shoots up a school. An 18 year old man killed 9 people in Munich, Germany, however he was a fan of first person shooters. The video game rating system should be higher for more mature games because video games have effects on child development, kids are more likely to commit federal crimes, and parents don't care what their children play anymore.…
The problem is ours because we have the caused the demand for such games. And without the demand there would be no need for them. But since we do have them just as we have guns, the parents should take back control. Just as you don’t allow your children to listen to offensive rap music, or play with guns. The same way you don’t want your child to look at pornographic material we should censor the games our children play. Why is this, the parent’s problem? Well you did bring them into this world, and are therefore responsible for their well-being including their mental growth. When a child plays violent games, studies show that their brain is stimulated. But don’t books do the same thing. Being a parent means you live by example…
The issue is that kid are buying violent video games that are not meant for their age group. Kids are getting more and more aggressive with their parent after the video games. Kids think that they can hit their parents like they are doing in the video games because they think it fine to do that to their parents. Some examples of places were little kids can buy any games is GameStop and Gamefly. A kid name Robert beat his mom after playing a violent video game for 17 hours straight. The game he was playing was the well game known…
Many things should be done to change children's view on video games and how much violence should be on the video games. Kids today act and dress older than they are. The fact remains that we are still kids. The children that grow up watching Barney and Blues Clues and play games such as Hop Scotch and Jump Rope, usually learn to love one another. The children who watch Power Rangers and play games such as Grand Theft Auto San Andreas or Combat Fighter, begin to kick each other and fight because that is what they are seeing on television. Our parents should sit down and explain to us that the Power Rangers are trained actors and actresses and that these games are for entertainment purposes only. They are actually not hitting and kicking each other. Watching violence makes children act violently. As long as children see it being done, they are going to do it also. Children imitate everything they see.…
Cited: Isajlovic-Terry, Natasha and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie. “An Exploratory Study of Children’s Views of Censorship.” Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children. Spring 2012. 38-43. Proquest. Web. 7 July 2013.…
The rating of videogames indicates the safe level of video games for different ages, this protects and helps the parent to know what their child plays.…
Seen as more and more games are getting violent and the no. of people who play them and commit crimes are slightly increasing, those violent video games have been rated in specific way. The first ever game to be rated this way was Mortal Kombat. It was one of the first ever games to have extreme graphic violence such, huge amounts of blood, people being ripped into half etc. The public found it so inappropriate that they rated it a Mature. It means the game is only to be purchased or played by a person who 17 or older. This is to stop anyone under that age from playing the game and having a bad influence. The ratings are as follows:…
Over the last several years, state and local governments have been firing shots across the bow of the Interactive Video Game Industry, seeking to constrain increasingly graphic and violent content found in current interactive games. The federal government has now jumped into the fray, with proposed legislation seeking to punish the marketing of violent media to children. With the cyber-world of Internet role-playing games about to explode, increasing pressure will be brought to bear by morality groups chanting battle cries of "protect the children" as their perennial justification for censorship of controversial, violent or erotic expression.…
People say that video games are very influential. It can be, but there isn’t much to learn from them. Parents complain a lot to the people/company, they bought it from because it is causing their children to become violent. But before they complain I think they should pay attention to the age restriction and then think before about complaining. The parents shouldn’t even buy the game for their children to play. It has an age restriction for a…
Controversies over video games often center on topics such as video game graphic violence, sex and…
Owner and manager at Geekay Games, Nimit Palija, insists that video games should indeed be banned in the UAE if they have mature content. “If the government has banned a games, there is a reason for that” Children and adults still find ways to get a hold of those banned games, although the games are banned for compelling reasons, that logic should apply if and when the content is not suitable for children of certain age groups. But more often than not, the games that have been banned are blockbusters, games that have received much accolade in the industry, and the fact that stores cannot sell these games is a loss for the retailers.…