Gamergate life 79 (english)
The French government is considering (again) to apply punitive measures to games they consider “sexist”. Among some of the measures they want to apply, there’s a special “discrimination” label for “sexist” games. Games with this label will have restrictions on publicity and will be considered the same as +18 games. Of course they will be the ones deciding which games are “sexist”, and they consider that games with “violence against women” are sexist; so, any game in which you can kill or hit a woman (which is almost any game in which you can kill) would fall into this label.
Oh, and by the way, the minister who’s trying to get this aproved has mentioned Feminist frequency as her inspiration for it, so this is another case of “we don’t want to take your games away”, where the profecy that Sarkeesians videos and lies will lead to games being censored and taken away proves to be true, while her defendants claim it will never happen.
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It´s funny, considering how hard is Blizzard trying to keep it PG-13 and they still have to deal with this…
The muslims all over France is a nice touch
The white flag next to the French flag is ALSO a nice touch haha.
Ironically a lot of our war-related words (e.g. guerilla) were borrowed from French. The “surrender” joke is kinda sick come to think of it.
Guerrilla comes from spanish, we where the ones who invented the tactic, dating as old as the Cantabrians fighting the Roman empire.
Didn’t know that. Thanks.
Well… Sad news for France… No more games coming to them anymore.
They are gona have to deal with …. playing with Rocks…
Unless I’m misinterpreting your comments, I need to point out that there’s more to life than video games. There are these things called “board games” and “card games” that have been around for centuries. Heck, where did the standard 52-card deck come from?
I half agree.
… No more Anglo-Saxon and Japanese games coming to them any more.
As for games financed by the French Ministry of Culture – No Comment.
They’ve got Ubisoft, which still operates after all these years.
Another thing… How exactly are new games not coming to them anymore?
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/amendements/3318/CION_LOIS/CL403.asp It’s an old news and hopefully reallt much nothing more than a publicity stun, the amendment was presented the January the 8 and retracted (the “retiré” on the left of the document) by the 15 of the same month. Still as a french I’ll keep an eye on those fuckers
It’s a new one. If you read the articles they say that the first one failed, and that’s why they’re trying this new one.
Oh you’re right indeed ! If I’m going on a wild guess it will be a blunder too, my guess is that there is more money behind not regulating in this fashion. The amendment was retired in about a week, so to me it was a low danger publicity stun for low level politician. Still I’ll keep an eye on that, thank you very much
And there it is, ten hours ago and pretty much as expected :
http://www.nextinpact.com/news/100106-le-cijv-restera-accessible-aux-titres-vehiculant-idees-sexistes.htm
To summarize there will be no “sexist” penalty to video games. The minister concerned hinted more about making video game related professions more attractive to women. That may be a whole other can of worm or simply a good idea if it is handled with a modicum of common sense (and yeah my faith on our elected representatives don’t go that far), but let’s face it one stupid thing at a time. (Sorry for spaming responded along the way as I looked into it)
If they did I predict it would end up like the various American ratings systems for movies, TV and video games.
American censorship works by the government threatening an industry and it self censoring. The current movie code G, PG, PG-13, R, NC17 and unrated was originally G, M, R and X. X was for condemned. Not to be seen by anyone under 17 years old. Pornography was CONDEMNED. Pornographers loved it! X was taken to mean it was officially certified by the great Hollywood studios as PORN. 100 proof — the real thing. Porno with a XXX (“triple X”) rating came out even tho there was no rating agency at all that had that rating. At one time there was a xxx rating for whiskey so it was derived from that.
It sounds from Arkonthorn’s comments that it could end up that way. A video game marked for shame for its sexist sexy sex and violence would be taken as a certification that this was the good stuff.
In the 1990s the government did impose a rating system built into every TV set. The owner of the set could pick a 4 digit code and restrict the TV. I did that once to watch it start a cop show and then the set go black after 1 second. Then I shut off the rating system. As did every American including parents. The government became aware that Americans were not using the system — including parents. It sponsored years of PSAs (Public Service Announcements) telling us about the system on the assumption that we didn’t know it was there. Eventually that was dropped. It was a solution in search of a problem.
R rating means not for children under 17 without a parent or guardian. “Guardian” immediately came to mean an older brother or sister. Or another child who claimed to be an older brother or sister. And very soon nothing at all. It became obvious that teen sex comedies like Porky’s or American Pie were intended for 15 year olds and that theaters were not trying at all to ask for IDs.
actually that never happenned ^^
*yandere mode*
Nobody touch our games.
Nah seriously i remember christine boutin who wanted to forbid the Hellfest (festival of Metal) because she “want to forbid the devil in france”..well she is a consanguine christian…nah it’ snot a basic insult, she is REALLY consanguine and still married with her cousin.