There is tons of talk about how Vice City makes fun of Hatians, or supports killing mindlessly. About violence/sex in video games being the root of some younger generational problems.

Who should be the censor? The video game industry/publishers or parents?

Should there be limits on what is acceptable in a video game?

Unfortunately, censorship is a double edged sword. While it does have a place for children and such, it shouldn't be entirely rid of everywhere else. Example: being allowed to post the instructions on how to make a nuclear bomb on a site should NEVER be allowed, but being able to swear on a public message board should not.

People dislike censorship usually because it blocks offensive things that some people like but most don't, such as swearing, pornography, and hardcore violence, etc. Censorship will never be "effective" until it comes down to censoring for an individual's specific interests. As of now, porno mailings come to everyone, regardless of whether or not you want to see them. You can't say "well if you don't like it, censor it/block it" because that sort of thing can't be stopped (as of right now).

Again, censorship is highly individualized; there's never going to be a happy medium when the today's "society" censorship scale is 1 to 10, but every person's scale is 1 to 100. That leaves too much room to differ.

Originally posted by Manu
There is tons of talk about how Vice City makes fun of Hatians, or supports killing mindlessly. About violence/sex in video games being the root of some younger generational problems.

Who should be the censor? The video game industry/publishers or parents?

Should there be limits on what is acceptable in a video game?

The New GTA is comming out in September and it is over in San Andres. This will be good.

Now on topic, just don't sell the games to kids 15 and under or have a parent get it for them well knowing the violence in the game. What these people also have to realize is it is just a game.

Exactly Mike. It should be in the parents hands, not corporations or government.