Utah Games/Porn Law Fails 46
Just a few days after it passed the Utah House of Representatives, the 'Games as Porn' law has died in the Utah Senate. Gamepolitics reports: "The Senate, however, never moved the bill out of committee for a floor vote. Dying a quiet death, HB257 has now been thrown on Utah' s legislative scrap heap - at least for the current session. Perhaps the Utah Senate recognized the obvious constitutional concerns surrounding Hogue's bill. As noted by GamePolitics, a pair of well-known First Amendment scholars savaged HB257 in a recent guest editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune."
Score one for Freedom of Speech (Score:4, Funny)
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No, they were just afraid that everybody would see how ridiculously incompetent they are. Without press coverage this would have passed for sure.
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Phew! (Score:1)
Now, back to my game. *fap fap fap*
Would someone... (Score:1)
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One day, a mother saw violent images in a video game and was Deeply Distressed [tm]. Interpreting her personal distress at the fictional imagery as being a Sign from The Holy Ghost [tm], she decided that violent video games were Wrong [tm]. She announced to her children that they would Not Have Video Games In Their Home. They, being thinking human b
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Remember kids... (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Most video games are *worse* than porn (Score:1)
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Oh, I see, he thinks he can force his view of the world on everyone else, by prefixing his desire with "as a parent".
Lemme try that: "As a parent, I object to the grandparent poster being allowed to live and expose my children to the vile notion that it is all right to force one's opinions on others."
Re:Most video games are *worse* than porn (Score:3, Insightful)
Seriously though, what makes one feel that they are entitled to require the whole world to be coated in a 3 foot layer of nerf, just because their toddler might fall down and bump his knee.
Parenting is a hard job. The world isn't all kid friendly, but it's your job to keep your kids safe, not the governments, not sociaties, not your neighbors, and certainly not mine. It's your job, quit trying to pawn it off on other people.
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I'm not sure whether you are agreeing with me, or arguing with me.
One counter to parenting not being the government's job is that government has impeeded the paraent's ability to parent. When little Johnny learns that all he has to do is call the school-supplied state
s/lose/loose/ (Score:2)
Well then you should... (Score:2)
s/paraent/parent/
s/insistes/insists/
s/amis/amiss/
s/Johnney/Johnny/ (-- to be consistent)
s/damn/damned/
Not trying to pick, but since you brought it up...
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aw.... (Score:3, Funny)
I also wanted to see spam in my mailbox saying "Watch NASTY CINDY TAKE the triforce ALL THE WAY to the palace!" and "DIRTY TRISHA CAN'T GET ENOUGH of Mario Brothers!" That'd have been hot! OH well.
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OK, that's it. Fess up. (Score:5, Funny)
Today, Utah Games/Porn Law Fails [slashdot.org].
That's too much common sense to be for real.
So fess up. Which one of us h4x0r3d the Utah Legislature's vote-counting system? Because it's either that, or we're faced with a bigger problem -- namely who are the aliens who invaded Great Salt Lake, and what did they do with Utah?
Re:OK, that's it. Fess up. (Score:1)
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Do we care?
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I for one welcome our new sensible alien overlords.
Now if only they would get around to the rest of the country, we might be able to turn this fiasco called the 21st Century around.
Yay! (Score:1)
I would like to be one of many to say... yay for common sense! Really. Games are games.