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Who Should be Responsible for Limiting a Minor?s Access to Violent Games? Poll Offers Schizophrenic Results

By pete_gallagher

In advance of yesterday's oral arguments for Schwarzenegger vs. EMA, the First Amendment Center polled over 1,000 adults for their opinion on where responsibility should fall when it comes to deciding whether kids should be able to buy or rent violent videogames.

86 percent of the respondents indicated that a 'great deal' of the burden for such choices should fall on parents, while 43 percent indicated that videogame manufacturers and retailers should carry a 'great deal' of the responsibility. Only 28 percent thought the government should wield a 'great deal' of influence over such decisions.

On the flip side however, 68 percent of those polled said that 'yes, the government should be able to prevent the sales or rentals of violent videogames to children under 18.' Only 31 percent said that the government should not be involved in such a policy.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on November 03, 2010 (boomark / email).