I can't remember where but i read a mark twain quote yesterday about censorship'Censorship is like banning a man from eating meat because a baby can't chew it.'
i don't know why i feel it is pertenant here.. but ho hum.
(i don't know why i feel it is pertenant here.. but ho hum.
arrangedletters,
Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:47,
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Oh, I'm with you...I like GTA, and I don't kill people in real life for entertainment. I just don't think putting a little circle on the front of the box is the best way to prevent young impressionable minds from playing it.
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Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:49,
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it's no more effective than putting up larger circles with numbers into stop people driving too fast. 'Twould only be effective if efficiently enforced.
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RiffRaff lurking like a lurky thing,
Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:52,
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the circle represents a lawthe law is undermined by parents buying the game for their children.
if the government intervened in a parent buying a game for their children, the 'nanny state' argument would be wheeled out. Fuck being in government... you try and make things nice for people and they piss all over it.
(if the government intervened in a parent buying a game for their children, the 'nanny state' argument would be wheeled out. Fuck being in government... you try and make things nice for people and they piss all over it.
yanmania... last shagged your mum on,
Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:58,
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