Gamertell

In the recent race to the White House, politicians are not the only people fighting to be heard. In a recent issue of CitizenLink parents fear ESA’s (Entertainment Software Association) most recent activity of funding game friendly candidates.

According to CitizenLink, parents fear that ESA’s latest actions would “sway lawmakers” into allowing video games to produce more violent and sexually explicit games. The fear is apparent in CNN’s latest situation room blog where the site asks, “Should the government be able to limit violence on TV?”

One parent from Tucson, Arizona, posts: “How about the government regulates the violence in video games? There’s something wrong when some of the best-selling games involve brutally murdering innocent people and robbing them.”

But, as Focus on the Family Action’s media and sexuality analyst, Daniel Weiss, told CitizenLink, “Money does a lot of talking in Washington, unfortunately, and our concern is that this lobby is going to be very formidable. As games have gotten more violent and really hypersexual these days, I think America’s clamoring for the video-game industry to be more responsible.”

ESA chief executive, Michael D. Gallagher, told The New York Times that following the approval of ESA’s policital action committee last year by March of this year the committee will be ready for action. ESA currently represents major game publishers that includes Disney, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

“If I can walk into the office of a member of Congress and tell them we have 20,000 voters in their state who are already signed up to write letters and act based on game-related issues that concern them, that’s powerful,” Gallagher said in an interview with The New York Times.

Organizations such as Concerned Women for America brace themselves for an upcoming battle.

“It’s going to be difficult to get common-sense legislation in place,” Matt Barber, a policy director for cultural issues at CWA told CitizenLink. “Especially where we have an activist lobby.”

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