Illinois (home of Chicago) saw a bill proposed/reintroduced that aims to ban games depicting certain acts, ostensibly in response to a bump in carjacking numbers. There is an existing law banning sale to minors (potentially dubious in and of itself but eh) but this would go for everybody.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/platfo...o-games-carjackings-evans-operation-safe-pump
How this will play out is unknown. Most generally considered lawmakers vs computer games a done deal back in 2010 when the US Supreme court said do one as games are free speech to a 2005 California law, case was Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1448.ZS.html for those that fancy some dry legal documents, many videos available if you prefer less dry).
Anyway Marcus C. Evans, Jr. is the offending party, has a D after his name if you care about such things. Bill is HB3531
https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/Bi...ocTypeID=HB&LegId=132549&SessionID=110&GA=102
GTA was specifically mentioned by one of the main people that worked with the guy above as a problem as well.
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/g...o-v-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-series-x-pc-sale-banned/
For the record the American Psychological Association (a group that largely governs psychologists, confers titles and and is definitely the main one in the US) has continued to reaffirm that there is "insufficient evidence to draw a causal link" between games and activity.
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/violent-video-games-behavior
More generally
Violent crime stats, including historical
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-data-increase-murder-violent-crime-2015-n654436
Game industry revenues
https://nycdatascience.com/blog/student-works/analysis-of-video-game-sales-from-1980-2016/
A wiki but has some nice charts https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Video_game_industry
Edit. Changed title to say sale of; they were not going to be all "bring all these games so we can burn them".
https://chicago.suntimes.com/platfo...o-games-carjackings-evans-operation-safe-pump
How this will play out is unknown. Most generally considered lawmakers vs computer games a done deal back in 2010 when the US Supreme court said do one as games are free speech to a 2005 California law, case was Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1448.ZS.html for those that fancy some dry legal documents, many videos available if you prefer less dry).
Anyway Marcus C. Evans, Jr. is the offending party, has a D after his name if you care about such things. Bill is HB3531
https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/Bi...ocTypeID=HB&LegId=132549&SessionID=110&GA=102
Synopsis As Introduced said:Amends the Violent Video Games Law in the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes provisions that restricts the sale or rental of violent video games to minors to prohibit the sale of all violent video games. Modifies the definition of "violent video game" to mean a video game that allows a user or player to control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal. Modifies the definition of "serious physical harm" to include psychological harm and child abuse, sexual abuse, animal abuse, domestic violence, violence against women, or motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present inside the vehicle when the theft begins. Makes conforming changes, including repealing a Section concerning the labeling of violent video games by video game retailers.
GTA was specifically mentioned by one of the main people that worked with the guy above as a problem as well.
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/g...o-v-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-series-x-pc-sale-banned/
For the record the American Psychological Association (a group that largely governs psychologists, confers titles and and is definitely the main one in the US) has continued to reaffirm that there is "insufficient evidence to draw a causal link" between games and activity.
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/violent-video-games-behavior
More generally
Violent crime stats, including historical
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-data-increase-murder-violent-crime-2015-n654436
Game industry revenues
https://nycdatascience.com/blog/student-works/analysis-of-video-game-sales-from-1980-2016/
A wiki but has some nice charts https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Video_game_industry
Edit. Changed title to say sale of; they were not going to be all "bring all these games so we can burn them".
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