For years lobbying groups with words like *family*, and *values*, attached to them has been throwing money at washington to get everything from games being banned to tough laws that amount to censership. In all these cases, courts have thrown out the legislation as being unconstitutional but still these groups persist with there moderatly funded and ignorance induced campaigns to limit free speech.
Even if they haven't succeeded yet, they are still as annoying as hell and have the ears of some of nations politicians.
The Video game industry and video gamers have tried to reason with people like Jack Thompson, Hillary Clinton and the endless list of lobbying groups. But to no avail. So the Game industry did the only thing it could do. Play by Washingtons rules.
The old phrase money talks and bullshit walks best sums up what is going to happen this year. The ESA (Entertainment Software Association), has been approved and will begin to write checks to politicians. By the end of this calender year they expect to have sent out 50-100,000 dollars in campaign funding for game friendly politicians.
You can check out our lobbyist at there website: www.theesa.com
The anti-gaming lobbyists are pissed becuase they know there is no way to compete with the fastest growin industry that today is valued at 18.85 billion and growing. That the average gamer is a mature adult and that those who played games in the 80's and 90's have grown up and will vote and spend money to defend there games.
You can jump into the action by checking out and joining Video Game Voters Network, a site devoted to helping protect video gamers, the video game industry and free speech by mobilizing we many gamers into a politcal force. I stop being apathetic when the government starts taking away and censoring my video games.
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