Blagojevich’s quest to ban violent video games cost nearly $1M

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from Quad Cities Online, via Slashdot:

http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=339802

Blagojevich’s quest to ban violent video games cost nearly $1M


By Mitzie Stelte, [e-mail]



SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich's efforts to ban certain video games has done significant violence to Illinois' budget.

The governor has spent nearly $1 million in taxpayer money to appeal a 2005 federal court ruling that a state law banning the sale of violent or sexual-explicit video games to minors was unconstitutional.
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The governor and other supporters of the law have argued that children were being harmed by exposure to games in which characters go on killing sprees or players view sexually explicit acts.

The governor raided funds throughout state government to pay for the litigation. Some of the areas money was taken from included the public health department, the state's welfare agency and even the economic development department.

Well done, Blags! As one commentator on Slashdot said, he was "trying to keep seventeen
year olds from seeing boobies".

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1. when does Lisa become governor again? n/t