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Hillary Clinton promotes law to ban violent video games
Last Updated Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:10:39 EST
CBC Arts
U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton has fired another salvo in her battle against violent video games.
On Thursday, she announced draft federal legislation ? expected to go before Congress in mid-December ? that would ban the sale of violent video games to children. Several states are attempting to pass similar laws.
Backed by Senator Joseph Lieberman, another Democrat, she said the draft law also calls for an annual review of the video game rating system.
"I have developed legislation that will empower parents by making sure their kids can't walk into a store and buy a video game that has graphic, violent and pornographic content," she said in a statement.
Children under age 17 would not be able to buy or rent games rated as "M" for Mature or "AO" for Adults Only. Violators of the prohibition would be fined.
The law also recommends a Federal Trade Commission sweep of the game industry to ferret out any hidden content that might undermine those ratings, such as the hidden sexual content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas discovered earlier this year.
Clinton had denounced game makers and helped prompt an investigation of Rockstar Games, makers of Grand Theft Auto, when news of the sexual content came to light.