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kane_magus) wrote2013-05-15 12:49 pm
kane_magus) wrote2013-05-15 12:49 pm
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"Yes, Joe Biden, There is a Legal Reason You Can't Tax Video Games"
This is a follow-up to that.
It's pretty common sense that, you know, the first amendment would apply here.* Taxing a game based on its content isn't much different than just straight up censoring it based on its content (i.e. it's still a form of punishment for the game having the "wrong" sort of content).
The thing that bothers me the most is that whenever anyone is talking about doing this sort of thing, taxing violent games and whatnot, they almost never talk about doing the same things with other forms of media, which often have far "worse" content than games do, as I said over five years ago (and on many other similar occasions). Again, the hypocrisy is just astounding.
Of course, as was stated in both the article from the other day and also inowsf2000's comment to my post from five years ago, the reason for this is simple: the video game industry doesn't really have a government lobby in place to counteract all the bullshit being spewed about them from all the other lobbies, whether it's the NRA or religious groups or direct competitors like the movie industry and such. Whatever efforts were being made in the past to create such a thing don't seem to have gone anywhere, at least that I can tell.
* - As an aside, I wish the people that are always so gung ho about the second amendment all the time would care as equally about the others as well, yet it seems like they're often among the forefront of people who want to censor video games in some way.
It's pretty common sense that, you know, the first amendment would apply here.* Taxing a game based on its content isn't much different than just straight up censoring it based on its content (i.e. it's still a form of punishment for the game having the "wrong" sort of content).
The thing that bothers me the most is that whenever anyone is talking about doing this sort of thing, taxing violent games and whatnot, they almost never talk about doing the same things with other forms of media, which often have far "worse" content than games do, as I said over five years ago (and on many other similar occasions). Again, the hypocrisy is just astounding.
Of course, as was stated in both the article from the other day and also in
owsf2000's comment to my post from five years ago, the reason for this is simple: the video game industry doesn't really have a government lobby in place to counteract all the bullshit being spewed about them from all the other lobbies, whether it's the NRA or religious groups or direct competitors like the movie industry and such. Whatever efforts were being made in the past to create such a thing don't seem to have gone anywhere, at least that I can tell.* - As an aside, I wish the people that are always so gung ho about the second amendment all the time would care as equally about the others as well, yet it seems like they're often among the forefront of people who want to censor video games in some way.