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Venezuela Plans Violent Games Ban

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By Tom Ivan

August 28, 2009

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Venezuela is moving to ban the sale of violent games and toys in a bid to tackle widespread crime in the country.

While there’s little evidence to show that violent games are a cause of real violence, that hasn’t stopped the Venezuelan National Assembly from approving a bill on the ban of such games in an initial round of voting.

The bill must now pass another round of voting and be signed by President Hugo Chavez to become law, according to Reuters.

Opponents of Chavez claim that 100,000 people have been murdered since his appointment in 1999, although his government says the figure is an exaggeration.

Venezuela is not the only country to move to impose a ban on violent games. China’s Ministry of Culture recently banned online games featuring mafia-like gangs because they "undermine morality and Chinese traditional culture,” while in Germany, lawmakers are also seeking to outlaw the production and distribution of violent games, prompting prominent developer Crytek to threaten to leave the country should the government’s efforts prove successful.

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On August 29th Jack_ said:

As always, a joke told by those who consider themselves to be serious people.

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On August 29th rahvii said:

Being from Venezuela (living in it) i can't disagree more on this ban. The Project clearly states that there are studies that support that games motivates children on being violent, wich is completely false. Also uses the world violence without any type reference or way to know what is violent or what is not. At this point even Mario games could be considered violent. Who's gonna call for that?

Nonetheless this so called Revolution doesn't take any type of criticism from anyone that oposses their ideas, even if they don't posses any basis at all.

I'm thinking what will happen with the WCG 2009 nationals now that almost every tournament game is considered violent.

Here's a link to the project (spanish): http://doc.noticias24.com/0908/juegos.pdf

Very sad news for venezuelan gamers.