The governor of New York will propose an antigame bill
The governor of New York Eliot Spittser, earlier held a post of the general public prosecutor of the same staff, is going to elaborate some bills. Alongside with financial and judicial reform, and also development of power, Spittser plans to present the next bill directed on restriction of access of young users to "severe" computer games.
A bill preparing now, on Spittser’s plan, should limit access of teenagers in the age of till 17 years to the game products containing stages of display of violence and cruelty. Similar norms will operate in the film-industries, viewing of films with the certain rating children is possible only at support of parents. For the careless distributors selling similar games to children, the penalty, and, probably, some other sanctions will be stipulated. His initiative Spittser compares on importance to an interdiction on sale of tobacco production to minor citizens.
Meanwhile, the communication between cruelty at cinema and computer games and the behaviour of the person in a daily life till now thoroughly is not proved. For example, the professor from the faculty of psychology of the Texas Agrotechnical International University, Christopher Ferguson is convinced, that computer games do not provoke aggression. Ferguson speaks, that in many cases authors of corresponding reports are nonprofessionally researches, and the press which folowed them, only has poured oil on the flame.
At the same time, according to recent independent research Psychology, Crime and Law, reaction to cruelty of the screen depends on specific features of the person, and all players are expedient for dividing on two basic groups: with a steady emotional condition and with less steady. Thus reaction to severe stages of representatives of the second group in many respects depends on an emotional condition in the beginning of games.
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