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Grand Theft Auto IV is still three days away from release, and the vast majority of people won’t have yet had the chance to sample the game. But that doesn’t seem to be stopping no-nothing do-gooders from calling for the game to be banned, before it even hits the streets, and before any of them have even played it.
We’ve already seen adverts for the game being pulled off buses in Chicago due to a biased piece of reporting from Fox News, and now more opinionated people have decided to butt in.
Parents Television Council president Tim Winter started the invented outrage by declaring:
“This brutally violent videogame must be kept out of the hands of children, and we are calling on all major retailers to reconsider any decisions to sell this game.”
The next day, California state senator Leland Yee sent a message to parent urging them to “avoid (the) latest ultraviolent […]
Original post by Dave Parrack and software by Elliott Back
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