EU catches US anti-violent videogames 'idiocy'

I've been keeping an eye on this since the first stirrings earlier this
year and it seems that the EU are stepping towards bans on excessive
violence and enforcement of age restrictions on games.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070613-regulations-on-the-sale-...violent

OfCOM in the UK have several discussion papers and a commissioned report
which seems inconclusive but there are further noises being made about
the link between videogames and childhood violent behaviour.

I'm all for making the PEGI/ESRB ratings 'formal' and enforcing this
under existing regulation of the sale of age marked goods to minors (not
that I for one minute think it will stop them getting hold of or having
bought for them material that they should not legally have access to),
but this Commissioner Frattini has on several occasions stated his
personal belief that violent videogames create violent children, and
that banning violent games is the only real solution.

I don't see why I, as a (pyschiatrically certified) well-adjusted
30-something, should be denied the chance to vent my anger blowing away
sprites of an evening just because the EU can't work out a way to stop
angst-ridden teens being violent to each other.
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Alfie [UK]
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I wish I were a Glow Worm, A Glow Worm's never glum. How can you be unhappy when the sun shines out yer bum ?