Banning Video Games

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I live in the United States and am wondering if video games will get banned based on all of the violence going on right now. I am not okay with the violence happening. I'm concerned that every video game ever released will be banned.

I don't play Call of Duty or anything with intense violence. I play classic arcade games, Pokemon, Animal Crossing among many other games that don't involve severe violence.

Would the video games I play be safe? Will it only be games that are super violent?

I like to think people have long since realized that playing violent games doesn't automatically turn someone into a psychopath. Some idiot government official in Rhode Island is proposing a bill to tax violent videogames, but that's only a concern if you live in that small state. Clearly he has the Rhode Island of brains.

Besides, people are turning on the NRA en masse. They've finally recognized where the real problem lies. I didn't realize NRA members were enjoying discounts from so many businesses. Good thing that's ending. I'm sure all the crybabies complaining that they're in a red state so they should boycott all those businesses out of principle were accounted for by those businesses anyways. They all apparently made their choice based on customer feedback. I for one would definitely consider their services out of the same principle.

The gaming community is huge and the industry is profitable. If a video game prohibition starts, it would face massive backlash from consumers and lobbying from the ESA to get it repealed.

Does that mean banning video games in where I live is technically not possible?

It won't be easy to outright ban video games. Not all video games are violent. I've played more than just FPS titles. I've also played puzzles, point n click adventures, and walking simulators (it's an okay genre to relax to). The worst congress can do right now is propose a tax on violent video games to make them more expensive, which is what a lawmaker from Rhode Island is doing right now. It's been tried in the past many times and hopefully it will fail again. Not all members of congress are as out of touch as you think. I can't name any names, but they are out there if we've come this far.

Oh my yes, the games I currently play are so violent it's no wonder I'm so messed up. The Sims. Animal Crossing. Even 911 Operator where you try to *save* lives and *stop* people who are committing crimes. (heavy sarcasm)

Actually that last game has some swearing in it, including the F word, use of drugs and alcohol, and acts of violence and some other disturbing stuff, although it's never visually shown, but almost every other game I play is E or T-rated.

I'm not American so I can't comment on the sociopolitical context there but nobody is going to ban video games. It's a massive industry! Even if the big publishers like to avoid tax, they're all intertwined with the economic system, with trust funds and other shareholders... government is as likely to interfere with that as it is to raise taxes on the rich or corporations

Of course, America is also the country where you can buy a gun before you're legally allowed to drink whisky, so who knows what will actually happen

I don't think that would happen here. It's very difficult to ban something here. If they decided to ban video games, it would cause a lot of uproar. I think blaming violence on video games is BS. Plus even if that happened, people woulds till find a way to get them. Games are no longer getting region locked so we can just order from over seas.

The First Amendment keeps us protected, unlike countries such as Australia, Germany, and most recently the UK.

There is no effective way to ban video games unless you live in some place like North Korea. In the USA you are going to be fine.

I wouldn't worry, there is no way that is going to happen.

Not sure about Australia, Germany or the UK. To my knowledge they are not banning video games in those places, and it would likely be very difficult to do so just like here.

Games are frequently banned in Australia. Among more recent high profile releases have been Left 4 Dead 2, which has since been allowed and Hotline Miami 2. Attempting to import a banned game is illegal and has fines of up to $110,000.

Additionally, games are often censored for Australian benefit. Fallout is probably the most high profile example - all the chems in the game were renamed from real world drugs. This was for the benefit of Australian censors.

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If they cant ban porn i doubt they will ban games tbh...

Also with the net its not too hard to learn about the dark web , torrents, TOR, VPN's to get round government censorship...

Well I admit I did not know that, but I more meant there is no way video games across the board would be banned. Of course there will always be efforts in some places to ban certain games or certain content even in the U.S.