] The measure approved Thursday would require store owners
] to determine which games are too violent or sexually
] explicit for anyone under 18. Anyone selling them to a
] minor could be fined.

[ Let me get this straight.... is this saying that the stores need to set policied on which games shouldn't be sold to minors, but if it's determined after the fact that they were wrong, then they get fined? What total horseshit. ]

This is just golden:

] The sponsor, Sen. Deanna Demuzio, denied the measure
] would interfere with free speech rights.
]
] "Video games are not art or media," she said. "They are
] simulations, not all that different from the simulations
] used by the U.S. military in preparation for war."

[ I think they're both art and media, as well as simulations. I also think this Senator is an extremist who's letting her false sense of morality get in the way of whatever intellect she actually has. ]

But the saddest thing in this entire article is:

] "I'm going to vote for this bill, but I'm voting for it
] for one reason: because this is a political bill,"
] said Sen. Mike Jacobs. "If I vote against it, it will
] show up in a campaign mail piece

[ Yeah, that's total bullshit. Welcome to the end of respectability... stupid stupid stupid public. -k]

Senate OKs Video Game Restrictions