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by striking 6y ago
This article links to https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-sees-spike-in-carjackings-prompting-call-to-ban-grand-theft-auto https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-sees-spike-in-carjackings..., which links to the actual source article https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2021/2/22/22295471/grand-theft-auto-illinois-ban-violent-video-games-carjackings-evans-operation-safe-pump https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2021/2/22/22295471/grand-t....
The latter article offers slightly more detail:
> Rep. Marcus Evans Jr. wants to amend a 2012 law preventing some video games from being sold to minors. Friday, he filed HB3531, which would amend that law to ban the sale to anyone of video games depicting “psychological harm,” including “motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present.”
> Besides addressing carjacking, the bill also changes the definition of a “violent video game” to one in which players “control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal.”
- BitwiseFool 6y agoThe fact that this legislator seriously proposed this, much less entertained the idea, proves we've got some seriously incompetent people running the government. How can I possibly think Rep. Evans has sound reasoning and is a compentent policymaker for everything else Chicago has to deal with?
- Alex3917 6y ago> The fact that this legislator seriously proposed this, much less entertained the idea, proves we've got some seriously incompetent people running the government. Hillary Clinton also tried to make GTA illegal, which is a large part of why Trump became president.
- forgotmysn 6y agoyou want to cite your sources on this one, buddy?
- jimbob45 6y agoHe’s right that Hillary tried to ban violent video games but it was long before her election and there’s no evidence to suggest it had any bearing whatsoever on the election.
- Alex3917 6y agoWhy do you think 4chan users were spending all their free time making pro-Trump and anti-Clinton memes? The GTA ban was one of the main things Clinton did to make that demographic hate her.
- ThisIsTheWay 6y agoHow much of the US voter base is paying attention to 4chan users? My assumption is basically none.
- Alex3917 6y agoA significant percentage of the political content on Facebook, Reddit, and elsewhere is coming directly from 4chan.
- Supermancho 6y agoClassic paranoia and misinformation has infected your worldview.
- Alex3917 6y agoSo you're saying the pepe memes didn't originate from 4chan? There were an enormous amount of those on facebook and reddit.
- ThisIsTheWay 6y agoWhat is a significant percentage? And how much influence does Facebook and Reddit have on voting?
- rsj_hn 6y agoWe are living in the age of moral indignation and outrage rather than intelligence and understanding. On the one hand, it does nothing to address the problem. On the other hand, that's good because it means there is more fuel for outrage in the next election, too.
- klodolph 6y agoThis “age of moral indignation and outrage” has been going on for eighty years at least—at what point do we stop calling it an “age”?
- fallingknife 6y agoIt definitely wasn't like this in the late 90's / early 2000's.
- perl4ever 6y agoApparently outrage died around that time, so it must not be like this now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Death-of-Outrage/William-J-Bennett/9780684864037 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Death-of-Outrage/...
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt was. The late 90s and early 2000s were chock full of moral panic about video games in general and Grand Theft Auto specifically, with speeches about "murder simulators" training our youths to kill being quite common.
- schoen 6y agoFor example, Child's Play was founded as a response to that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(charity)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(charity)#Histo... Jack Thompson was also making news at that time for filing lawsuits over the original Grand Theft Auto game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)#Grand_Theft_Auto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)#Grand... I seem to remember that the Child's Play founders had a particular rivalry or conflict with him over this.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThey should talk to the DoD about ‘America’s Army’
- nucleardog 6y ago> Besides addressing carjacking, the bill also changes the definition of a “violent video game” to one in which players “control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal.” Unless I'm totally misreading that, it sounds like GTA isn't even the tip of the iceberg. That's... a lot of games? I mean, besides all the obvious (every FPS, arguably many RTSs, etc) I'm pretty sure this would even ban Minecraft?
- d1zzy 6y agoSo almost any strategy game. While at it consider banning all TV, books, etc that cover such themes too /s