Massachusetts Bill Will Mark M Rated Games As “Porn Games”
This his a bill I agree 100% with. A bill which will be voted on by the House of Massachusetts tomorrow, will put M rated video games in the same category as Porn; making the games illegal to sell to minors. Heres what the Mayor of Boston had to say about the Bill:
“Children aged 17 and under should not be sold this stuff, so they are not getting into the hands of 9- and 10-year-olds,” said Larry Mayes, Menino’s chief of human services.
“Is it going to be an uphill battle? Sure. But it’s absolutely a battle that the mayor feels he should take on.”
Heres a snippet from the bill:
Matter is harmful to minors if it is obscene or, if taken as a whole, it… depicts violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community, so as to appeal predominantly to the morbid interest in violence of minors; is patently contrary to prevailing standards of adults in the county where the offense was committed… and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.
