{"id":17,"date":"2007-12-08T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-12-08T13:32:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:32:56","slug":"congresswoman-wants-game-industry-to-do-umm-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/17\/congresswoman-wants-game-industry-to-do-umm-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Congresswoman Wants Game Industry to do, umm, Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamepolitics.com\/2007\/12\/08\/congresswoman-urges-game-publishers-to-take-video-game-report-card-recommendations-to-heart\/\">GamePolitics<\/a> is reporting that Minnesota Congresswoman, and Nanny Statist extraordinaire, Betty McCollum wants the video game industry to do just what the censors at NIMF want. If not, she&#8217;s threatening to sponsor <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:h.r.02958:\">some bill<\/a> by some other statist moonbat from California which would ask the FTC to study game ratings.<\/p>\n<p>It seems her main gripe is that the industry should &#8220;adopt a clearer, more universal ratings system.&#8221; Umm, Congresswoman, how can the ratings get any clearer than this?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.gtanet.com\/illspirit\/randompics\/ratings_deathmatch.jpg\" alt=\"ratings label comparison\"\/><\/div>\n<p>On the left is the ratings label from GTA San Andreas. On the right is a Shaun of the Dead DVD. Not only is the game label like ten times bigger and in colors that are actually legible, there&#8217;s another big label on the front which movies do not have. As such, any FTC report would probably consist of about seven words:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ratings are already clear, you idiots!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And being that I just did all the hard work, can I have Federal funding now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GamePolitics is reporting that Minnesota Congresswoman, and Nanny Statist extraordinaire, Betty McCollum wants the video game industry to do just what the censors at NIMF want. If not, she&#8217;s threatening to sponsor some bill by some other statist moonbat from California which would ask the FTC to study game ratings. It seems her main gripe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}