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Brazilian Senator Creates Bill To Outlaw Offensive Games
Brazilian senator Valdir Raupp has created a bill that would make the import or distribution of offensive video games in Brazil a crime.
With the bill, Raupp hopes to “curb the manufacture, distribution, importation, trading, custody, and storage of video games that affect the customs and traditions of the people, their worship, creeds, religions, and symbols.”
"Therefore, we seek to protect the principle of equality -- for many the greatest of constitutional principles -- with the characterization of such discriminatory conduct as a crime by making provision in the law," he says.
According to Brazilian Web site UOL (text is in Portuguese, read translation here), the Education Commission of the Senate has approved the bill, which will now be voted on by the Committee on Constitution and Justice. The bill issues a penalty of one to three years imprisonment for those committing an offense.
What do you think about the bill? And to take it one step further, how would you feel about a bill like this getting voted on in your country of residence?
[Via Game Politics]
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