Congressman Pushing For Game Package Warnings
Nearly everything comes with warning labels nowadays. Cigarettes warn us about cancer and birth defects; coffee warns us of its potential for scalding, plastic bags warn us that they can be a suffocation risk and California congressman Joe Baca wants to put similar labels on video games.
He cites research studies that show a link between child aggression and video games and claims that the Consumer Product Safety Commission needs to mandate that video game publishers include this label on games rated T or higher: “WARNING: Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior.”
Unfortunately for the congressman the jury is still out on whether there’s a real link between them, because despite all the studies that frequently get talked about which link violence and video games, there are many others that show little or no relationship between the two.