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Response to legislation regulating video game sales

Gerard Jones published an opinion piece in the LA Times; we all discussed it on the IGDA anti-censorship list and I gave him comments as he was editing it. It’s a good response to legislation regulating video games.

Violence Viewed As Infectious Disease

A report discussed how to view violence as an infectious disease. It specifically deals with being exposed to actual violence, not mediated, but it seems relevant to video games.

I’m interested to know if the methodology holds up, so if anyone has good analytical skills I’d love to see their analysis of this study method.

Though this may (and probably will) be turned into an argument to prevent kids from seeing virtual violence as well “just in case”, the argument could be made the other way: (continued »)

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