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Re: The current hot topic of violence in video games.
It would depend.
Sceans of graphic violence can be grounds for getting a book banned (though the only example I can think of at the time is AMERICAN PSYCHO. However, many other have been banned for graphic sexual nature (HOGG is perhaps the best example of this--just reading the synopis on Wikipedia can be sickening) as well as the usual mindlessness of those doing the banning (as in the case of James Joyce's novel ULYSSES (1922) for obscentity alligations) which was contested in Court (United States vs One Book Called Ulysses--1933) and won in Joyce's favor.
This current leadership of American appears to jump at anything exploitable, just to further their goals and 'appearances' to the Public that they are 'doing something' about the problem. But since MUD's are text and not graphical, we may dodge this bullet--for a time. Until somebody get upset with a scean depicted, and calls their local representative in Congress.
Darren Brimhall
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