The government has absolutely no responsibility, nor jurisdiction, to censor video games, music, tv, etc.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool and should fuck off to a dictatorship or communist country if they want an overlord who'll tell them what's best for them. Anyone who wants government censorship is undeserving of the freedoms and liberties that our society is supposed to afford us. They're undeserving of the rights that our grandparents and great grandparents fought and died for.
Ensuring that 16 year old kids don't get exposed to graphic violence or sex is a parents responsibility. Full stop.
Ensuring that kids can tell the difference between fiction and reality is a parents responsibility. Full stop.
Teaching the difference between right and wrong is ultimatly a parents responsibility. Full stop.
That said, there are certain perameters our society has set out that aide in limiting the exposure of mature content to children while still falling short or Stalinesk censorship.
The Sopranos isn't aired between Spongebob and Dora on Saturday morning.
Profainity isn't allowed on the air until after 7:00-ish (IMS).
TV shows and video games have a warning label that immediatly lay out the types of possibly offensive things they contain.
There's all this talk about "Think of the children...what about the children". What about the adults? Do we have to live in a lollipop-gumdrop-bubble simply because people refused to monitor what their kids watch/play and enforce certain boundaries?
Founding member of the Leave-Me-Alone-atarian party of Canada.