South Carolina (my home state! Go Gamecocks!) Bill 56 seeks to outlaw any written or oral display of profanity in the public or in correspondence with minors (aw, so much for my short-lived regional pride...). For some reason, perhaps because of the bill's mention in GamePolitics, this has really been circulating around the gaming website community. Of course, video games are under another sort of attack by legislators, but this could have other effects on games as well.
Would the passage of this bill form a de facto ban of profanity-using games to minors? Would it mean that classic novels that say "Damn" once would be held away from 15-year-olds like pornography? Would I have just been fined 5,000 dollars for using the word "damn" on my site?
It shouldn't really matter, because this bill is completely idiotic even before you get into discussing it on a constitutional level.
Friday, January 16, 2009
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