Things are looking double-plus ungood for gamers in the UK. David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party is ready to deliver a “mini-manifesto” on how to deal with crime, which includes (you guessed it…) dealing with violent video games.

Cameron told the BBC he believes the current Labour government is taking a one-dimensional approach to crime prevention:

We are never going to deal with crime unless we look at the broader context and say ‘Yes, tough laws, strong action on police, but also action to strengthen our society.’

And that includes, I think, videogames and things like that where we do need to think of the context in which people are growing up.

I fail to see how censorship is anything but one-dimensional. More importantly, if kids cannot perceive the difference between fantasy and reality (or determine that misogynist rap sucks) it is clearly education, not censorship, that governments need to be thinking about.

via gi

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