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Article: There is a majority against vile video games, and it is moral
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- March 30, 2008
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The report issued last week by Dr Tanya Byron on the effects of
violent computer games upon young people was a typical well-meaning
New Labour project: it made decent recommendations of dubious
effectiveness. Dr Byron, a former television psychologist with
experience of troubled children, said games should be rated by the
user's age, and urged fines, even jail, for those selling them to
underage children.
Dr Byron seems a sensible woman, and no doubt she has done her
best to contain the spread of some of the more obnoxious material on
offer without incurring the ire of the games lobby. But one of her
remarks in an interview last week struck me as particularly, and
depressingly, modern. "My ...
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