|
Subject:
Help!
hi
there, how are you doing? sory to bother but i think in
this case we really need your help...our governament is
getting crazy, a new revelation we were able to find in
the procedure of the 6 banned games from last week...last
20th the follow was on a major pc news website here in brazil...(i´ll
translate, so plz be patience with my english;)
"Even
with the possibility of creating an age tag/limit for violent
games the objective of the Procuradoria da República (our
governamet) is to keep the banishment (prohibited) of all
excessive violent games and to includ new titles as the
technical analises can be done. the first of the list is
QUAKE.
"the
process of avaliation of a game is a complicated task. it
requires the contact with numerous professionals in the
areas of psicology, medicine and education. We can´t do
other analises imidiately, but do so is part of our plans.
A lot of pepople mentioned the lack of Quake on the last
week banishment. As for now its the only game title we coagitated
a research to get it prohibited", says Fernando de Almeida,
procurador da República em Belo Horizonte (one of the mans
behind all this). The process of investigation of the games
started at 17th of last september when (i think its like
an america congressman) vereador of PSB of Belo Horizonte
Betinho Duarte end the deputada federal Maria Elvira get
in an 130 violent games. As the list was too large, 6 of
them were elected for an technical study (Doom, Postal,
Mortal Kombat, Requiem, Blood e Duke Nukem). the choice
was made based on an story of a magazine (non games magazine)
that compared the level of violence of several games"
After
a complete study made by a team of medics, shrinks and pedagogs
(damn my english sux, sory guys) the six games were pointed
as being very violents e forwarded fot the Justice Departament,
that assigned the document and oficializing the prohibition
of those games in Brazil. "The prohibition will never have
total effectiveness, since those games can be downloaded
from the internet, but have a high political value in the
way to alert parents about the bad influence for the kids
education that these games make."
well...we
are very worried here, what we thought was just some guy
wanting votes now became a fuckin nightmare, if this goes
on and at least one game falls on the future prohibition,
after that they will have precedents to do whatever they
like about witch games or not will be allowed here...i just
talked with the major games distributer here in Brazil and
he says they cant do it, he already mobilized his lawyers
to bring on the studies the were made on the carmaggedon
game some years ago...that proved that games wont educated
killers (the main issue of justice departament is that they
still blame that theater assassination due to Duke nukem3D).
i mada an agreement with the president of that games distributor...i´ll
do a petition letting all gamers write down what they think
about it and telling their experiences with violent games,
so when he will deliver the carmageddon files, i´ll deliver
the mails as well. i setted up an account on my site and
asked to all brazillian gamers to join us and write even
to be a simple e-mail telling whatever (just asked to be
polite, not to get us misunderstooded again by some pricks).
Since all your sites (sending this to some of you guys)
have a (veeeery) bigger range of getting gamers to help
(and i think that if here it´ll go forward others countrys
govs will follow), i ask kindly and desperate for help if
u can stick this link to our petition...we arent getting
enough mails to impress them :((( we just want once and
for all that they take us for normal people.
protesto@hardinfo.com.br
thnks
a lot, we hope you can always count on us as we count on
you...gamer is a gamer whether in mars or jupiter.
This
is with the knowledge of 3 of our main gamming sites here,
if u gonna cote, plz do to all or never mind
migNAz
from hardINFO
ZER.Ø
Crash from KingMob
FooFighter
from Slipgate
anyway,
i´ll keep u posted on news regarding this matter...and keep
up, your sites are our favorites, excelent job :)))
|
