The PTC Picks Up Jack's Torch

AngelHedgie

After getting a vicarious dickslapping by the courts recently, it seems our friends the Parents Television Council is still up to their old games. And now, video games are on their mind.

Seriously, don't these idiots have anything better to do?

tarnok

Where do these kids get money from to buy these things? The moral of the story is "Stop giving your children large amounts of money and not paying attention to how they spend it."

MayGodHaveMercy

tarnok wrote: »

Where do these kids get money from to buy these things? The moral of the story is "Stop giving your children large amounts of money and not paying attention to how they spend it."

But it's so much easier to blame other people for your failings as a parent.

Santa Claustrophobia

I like the graphic where they state they went to two Hollywood Video stores and 50% of them sold an M-rated game to a minor. That's definitely a thorough test.

It's also (almost) interesting in that the stores that saw a higher increase in sales for the FTC see a similar increase for the PTC (except for the WallMart and Best Buy deviations).

Frankly though, this is hardly proof of anything. The article points out that the PTC was hardly similarly balanced in where they went and there's no mention of when they shopped either. I imagine that any minor who looks remotely 17 is going to be able to buy an M-rated game when the store is off-the-chain busy. It also fails to help establish any correlation between M-rated games and negative influence on children.

They lump games in with firearms, tobacco, and alcohol (every High School party I've ever been to...) as needing regulation in regards to kids. Except that those three things provide a pretty immediate outcome when they are used. (Maybe not for tobacco, but for non-smokers it's pretty immediate.)

Short answer: No, they don't have anything better to do than meddle with other's choices.

MayGodHaveMercy

Santa Claustrophobia wrote: »

I like the graphic where they state they went to two Hollywood Video stores and 50% of them sold an M-rated game to a minor. That's definitely a thorough test.

Haha, I was just looking at that. Nah, it's not skewed at all. That's a perfectly acceptable amount of test stores.

Doomulon

tarnok wrote: »

Where do these kids get money from to buy these things? The moral of the story is "Stop giving your children large amounts of money and not paying attention to how they spend it."

It's a sad day when parents want the government to raise their kids for them, apparently. I love this steady downward slide we are seeing where parents are just letting the media raise their children.

If they want legislation to fix their broken parenting skills, why don't they lobby to make it a crime for parents to let a videogame do the babysitting?

SilkyNumNuts

That is a really retarded set of comparisons. I mean seriously...

AngelHedgie

Doomulon wrote: »

tarnok wrote: »

Where do these kids get money from to buy these things? The moral of the story is "Stop giving your children large amounts of money and not paying attention to how they spend it."

It's a sad day when parents want the government to raise their kids for them, apparently. I love this steady downward slide we are seeing where parents are just letting the media raise their children.

If they want legislation to fix their broken parenting skills, why don't they lobby to make it a crime for parents to let a videogame do the babysitting?

Because that's not the PTC's goal. Their goal is to manipulate the media.