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Pa. Task Force Discourages Video Game Legislation [Politics]
Kotaku — ... work. Others included the Entertainment Software Ratings Board's Patricia Vance; Cheryl Olson and Lawrence Kutner, who wrote "Grand Theft Childhood,"; and social scientist Dr. Patrick Markey of Villanova University. "Although there were disagreements at times, I think the members of the task force worked together extremely well and came to a fairly 'common sense' conclusion," Markey said, GamePolitics reported this news yesterday; it has a link to the task force's full 69-page report. Pennsylvania Task Force Says No to Video Game Legislation [GamePolitics]

Pennsylvania Actually Realizes That Video Game Legislation Is A Bad Idea
Techdirt — ... In the end, politicians know this -- yet they still keep pushing for such laws, so that, come election time, they can make a false claim in their campaign ads about how they "protected the children." The truth is, all they really did, was waste taxpayer money on a lawsuit that was a clear loss from the beginning. That's why it's great to finally see one state at least investigate the issue a bit, with a Pennsylvania task force quite clearly telling state legislators that such a video game sales law is a bad idea. Instead, the task force suggests that, if the ...