The First Amendment now firmly protects profane and indecent speech, violent content, hate speech, and more.
Courts have refused to treat violent content as they would sexual material, which government can restrict under longstanding obscenity doctrines.
Social media such as Facebook are sometimes blocked, and some games in Vietnam have been taken down, mostly because of violent content.
All of them have a different beef they want addressed spam, privacy, porn, violent content, defamation, harassment, hate speech, religious persecution, terrorism, and more.
The Pan European Game Information system (Pegi) gives games an age rating as well as additional information such as violent content and bad language.
That counts as exposure to violent content, and Dr. O'Keeffe says it can be especially scary to big kids, who understand that it's real.
Given the violent content of their actions in Israel, it should come as no surprise that their events on US campuses also breed violence.
Clinical research about whether violent content can desensitize the brain to violence, making a person more likely to commit some atrocity, is varied and uncertain.
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The FCC itself has recognized that its inability to oversee violent content is a problem and in a 2007 report to Congress called for changing the rules.
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Songs tagged for violent content and live shows that ended in food fights... well, that may or may not be "just plain fun, " but those can be checked off the list, too.
If a game does not deal with all aspects of violence in a nuanced fashion, then it runs too great a risk of its sexually violent content being simple voyeurism rather than a mature reflection on the real-world impact of sexually violent acts.
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Whether or not Crystal Dynamics is attempting in good faith to provide a serious narrative reflection on the impact of sexual violence, they are making a crucial error of trying to include sexually violent content in a video game that otherwise uses violence as a gameplay element to excite the player.
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In 1999, several months after two students went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20, President Bill Clinton asked the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to study whether the entertainment industry was using irresponsible marketing practices to push violent content on teenagers and children.
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All of this puts any sexually violent video game content in an awkward situation.
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These hidden behaviors include some things you might expect -- such as accessing violent (43%) or pornographic (32%) content online -- but also a few surprises.
The music industry already places parental advisory "explicit content" labels on records with sexually graphic or violent lyrics, but does not give details of the offensive material.
The lawyers from the band's major-label distributor found the content in "Becky" and two other songs too violent and told Be Your Own Pet to either change the lyrics or take them off the album.
The content of the voice your son heard is a little more worrisome because it is violent.
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