Oh FFS! Yes, let’s create a brand new stream of cash for underground video game developers.
Next up, let’s place the blame on Hollywood. And TV. And the internet. And books. And music.
And people talking with each other. And people of color.
So retro - like everything else we see from Fat Nixon, he’s desperate to go back to his so-called Glory Days of the 80’s and 90’s. Too bad he’s going back a little further than that to full-blown fascism.
I wonder what they’ll tell him. Because you know that whatever they tell him will be his talking points until the next person or group talks to him.
Anybody here have any money? My son-in-law has a great deal for you.
Trump To Meet With Video Game Industry Heads To Talk About Violence
Next up, Trump to Meet with Fashion Industry Heads to Talk About Foreign Policy
The White House says attendees at Thursday’s meeting include representatives of the Entertainment Software Association, the Entertainment Software Rating Board and the Parents Television Council. Others represent the Media Research Center, a video game distributor, a software company, along with the author of a book linking mass killings to violent video games.
cause the video game industry manufactures tons of guns that can be used against school children. what?
Of the 200 countries with the highest rates of deaths from gun violence and the 100 countries that spend the most per capita on video games, only the United States is in the upper quintile on both metrics. Otherwise, the global pattern mirrors what that Villanova professor suggested about individual school shooters: More gaming correlates loosely to fewer violent gun deaths.
I’m not a fan of violent video games, especially the first-person shooter kind. But it will be some kinda sick if we start regulating shooting virtual guns while still passing out real guns like candy.
This high level conference will certainly establish that the XBOX has not and never will be of any use as an instrument of mass murder.
But whatever keeps the discussion away from combat grade ammunition & high capacity magazines is the real point.
In other news, Trump will speak to chicken farmers about commercial space transportation…
It was just a matter of time before Barron became a paid White House adviser at an annual salary of $165,000.
This is the policy equivalent of pretending to be hard at work when the boss looks in your direction.
“…meeting include…the Media Research Center, … along with the author of a book linking mass killings to violent video games.”
Liar Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center, part of the Reich-wing’s Perpetual Noise and Rage Machine. Oh, crap. This will be fair and objective. Sure. Whateveryousay.
Maybe one of those industry execs will point out that IN NO OTHER NATION do video games cause gun violence?
“Video games are plainly not the issue: entertainment is distributed and consumed globally, but
the U.S. has an exponentially higher level of gun violence than any other nation.” - Dan Hewitt, a spokesman for the Entertainment Software Association, 08 March 2018.
NY Post:
NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump is reviving an old debate over whether violent video games can trigger violent behavior. There’s just one problem: Roughly two decades of research has repeatedly failed to uncover any such link.
Two. Decades.
And also invited: “…an author of a book linking mass killings to violent video games.”
Right. Two decades of research has failed to uncover any such link, but this Reich-wing twat gets an invitation. He’s must be a real authoritarian nut as they didn’t release his name. Anyone know who it is?
Next up, Nerf gets called onto the carpet for its antifa “Rebelle” line of toy bows…
I wonder if Russian trolls play lots of video games that let you hack your way past the security system instead of shooting all the guards.
He’s at his lamest when taking directions from his evangelical base.
yup
Dave Grossman
Which is exactly what the NRA is having its paid/ bought off legislators at every level of government and President go through the dance of doing.