Ah, first-ammendment-protecting hippies...

...you're so easy to quote. And fun, too.

GamePolitics has been following quite closely the attempts by FCC to equate video game violence with pornography.

While Japanese media, and particularly their video games, are pervaded by violence, Japan has much lower crime rates than the United States. The same is true of Canada. What America has that Japan and Canada lack is a high level of poverty, excessive gun ownership, drug abuse, broken homes, illegitimacy and gangs. Wouldn’t it be smarter to go after the real causes of violence in our society rather than seeking a scapegoat in televised violence?
- Craig R. Smith, director of the Center for First Amendment Studies at California State University Long Beach

Link to the GamePolitics article.

Some people think that video game violence is the most dangerous thing in the world and should be kept in that same locked-up closet with pornography. That is, until you turn 18. Everything changes at that point: all those deadly things suddenly become OK and the Federal Government stops giving a rat's ass about you. Well, that's not really fair: they never give a rat's ass, they just pander to the voters, and a lot of the voters seem to think that their children don't drink, smoke or watch pornography until they turn 18.