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Legal Responses to Video Game Violence in the U.S. and Germany
Legal Responses to Video Game Violence in the U.S. and Germany
Let me start by saying: I know this article is old. It’s from 2001, in fact. But as I was doing some background reading for another task, I was reminded of this article: A Comparison of Legislative and Judicial Responses to Violent Video Games in the U.S. and Germany .
Given the number of German readers hanging around here, I thought some might be interested in a comparison of two cases on video games, even if the comparison was written in 2001.
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There was a lot of discussion in germany after several incidents with teenager violence, always between "ban the games" and "games are not the reason"
There were changes in the law in 2003, so I don't know if it is up to date anymore
but now I'm gonna read the article before more statements :)
Now I read it, and I never heard of a 700% tax for adult games, maybe it was just a single politician rushing forward, a bavarian politician demanded to limit the duration of marriage to 7 years recently, just another example of these unreal demands.
But I agree that there is definitely a sense of "protecting the young" in germany, as least in my eyes. If the game gets more expensive, harder to get and so on, an adult will always get it somehow, to keep children away from it has the higher priority...
A well written article and I think it's still newsworthy today.
I'm sure we will see similar discussions again very soon, when the first politicians get wind about GTAIV. As I once read somewhere, Games are a well liked topic for politicians, because by demanding a decrease of violence and sexual content, they can show how strongly they believe in family values, and don't have to offed that many potential voters. (in comparison to other topics like gay-marriage or stem-cell-research).