Anyway the Government absolutely must not decide what will influence us. I get quite enough politics elsewhere and do not care to discuss it here, but I should point this out to you. A fair part of my family came from South Africa and Rhodesia, they were European settlers, but they certainly felt the force of censorship their as the Governments there restricted anything they did not want their citizens to see. That was one of their reasons for coming here. Similarly I have friends from Spain and the older ones remember when they were banned from reading all sorts of books or seeing films or even listening to Music when the fascists were in power there. And of course on the other side of the spectrum, we see what happened in the Soviet Union and its sattelites when the Governments there chose to rstrict what their people would be influenced by.
This case is far from as bad as those cases, but be aware of the kind of thing you advocate when you say the government should be allowed to choose what we read or watch and play. I hardly find the current political set up satisfactory, but I do consider myself lucky that I live in a country where the Government )usually) doesn't interfere like this.
On another note, a few months ago, the same hypocrites in the press who no doubt influenced this decision were gleefully showing uncut footage of Saddam Hussein's execution. Surely the actual execution of a man, however despicable is worse than a video game? Anyway I hope this is the last I have to go into politics here. Video Games are a great escape, not something to have to remind me of all the bad in the world
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