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Reviewing a game's content "in its entirety"

Congressmen Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Jim Matheson (D-UT), and Mike McIntyre (D-NC) have introduced the Truth in Video Game Rating Act bill, which would, among other things, require game raters to review "the content of the video or computer game in its entirety."

Games are not movies that you can watch in 2 hours... Many games would require weeks if not months to complete "in its entirety", if that's even possible... Not to mention that all this legislation is being thunk up because of the GTA Hot Coffee mod, which you could not find even if you DID play the game in its entirety, since you had to actually hack the game to get at it...

Let's also not mention that government enforcement of media ratings has been repeatedly struck down in court, so this bill is really nothing more than election year manuevering that will never actually get enforced anyway.

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