My favorite site besides PWNED.com has a awesome story about the New York Gov. Eliott Spitzer (D) was apparently known as Client 9 to an upscale prostitution ring. Spitzer was opposed to violent video games like Hitman: Codename 47. The irony and hypocrisy of this man let alone that he is a politician.
Source - During the 2006 campaign Spitzer called out the video game industry
for excessive violence and, ironically, sexual content in its products:
Like all parents, I know it is increasingly difficult to
protect our children from negative influences… we have learned that
when self-regulation fails, government must step in… we must do more to
protect our children from excessive sex and violence in the media…
Media content has gotten more graphic, more violent and
more sex-based… Currently, nothing under New York State law prohibits a
fourteen-year old from walking into a video store and buying… a game
like ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ which rewards a player for stealing cars and
beating people up.
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