wraggster
September 21st, 2010, 20:18
Activision boss, Bobby Kotick's put his foot in it quite a few times over the last week.
However, in a rare break from controversy, Kotick has today pledged Activision Blizzard's support to the battle against calls in the US for video game purchases to be restricted.
Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 - also known as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - is attempting to pass legislation that would allow individual states to impose sales restrictions on violent games.
Kotick believes would "restrict content and eliminate First Amendment rights for Anyone Under 18".
Kotick argued: "The argument that video games present some kind of new ominous threat that requires a wholesale reassessment of one of our nation's most treasured freedoms and to take that freedom away indiscriminately from an entire group of our population based on nothing but age is beyond absurd.
"We are thrilled to be able to be an important part of this historic effort to protect our Constitution and to ensure that video games remain vibrant form of expression for every gamer in our constituency."
The Acti boss wants taxpayer money to be used for educating parents about video game age classifications - rather than censorship.
"Instead of tampering with the nation's Constitution and wasting taxpayers' money on setting forth unenforceable regulations during budgetary crisis, California could and should have adopted any number of measures and campaigns designed to ensure even higher rates of parental understanding of, and reliance on, the industry regulation system," he added.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=265752?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS
However, in a rare break from controversy, Kotick has today pledged Activision Blizzard's support to the battle against calls in the US for video game purchases to be restricted.
Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 - also known as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - is attempting to pass legislation that would allow individual states to impose sales restrictions on violent games.
Kotick believes would "restrict content and eliminate First Amendment rights for Anyone Under 18".
Kotick argued: "The argument that video games present some kind of new ominous threat that requires a wholesale reassessment of one of our nation's most treasured freedoms and to take that freedom away indiscriminately from an entire group of our population based on nothing but age is beyond absurd.
"We are thrilled to be able to be an important part of this historic effort to protect our Constitution and to ensure that video games remain vibrant form of expression for every gamer in our constituency."
The Acti boss wants taxpayer money to be used for educating parents about video game age classifications - rather than censorship.
"Instead of tampering with the nation's Constitution and wasting taxpayers' money on setting forth unenforceable regulations during budgetary crisis, California could and should have adopted any number of measures and campaigns designed to ensure even higher rates of parental understanding of, and reliance on, the industry regulation system," he added.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=265752?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS