Oklahoma House of Representatives approves violent-video-game bill

Violent-video-game aficionados of Oklahoma, are you sitting down?  Your House of Representatives has just approved a bill that seeks to lump video games featuring “inappropriate violence” with pornography .

HB3004 defines inappropriate violence as any depiction in a game that, when taken as a whole, would be found offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community (with respect to minors) by the average person 18 or older, and which lacks serious literary, scientific, medical, artistic or political value for minors. 

This means that if the bill is passed, stores selling or displaying games with inappropriate violence would be in violation of the law, and retailers would only be able to display such games for sale if two-thirds of their covers were obscured like those of adult magazines.

This bill is now at Senate level.  More updates as we get them.
Violent-video-game aficionados of Oklahoma, are you sitting down?  Your House of Representatives has just approved a bill that seeks to lump video games featuring “inappropriate violence” with pornography .

HB3004 defines inappropriate violence as any depiction in a game that, when taken as a whole, would be found offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community (with respect to minors) by the average person 18 or older, and which lacks serious literary, scientific, medical, artistic or political value for minors. 

This means that if the bill is passed, stores selling or displaying games with inappropriate violence would be in violation of the law, and retailers would only be able to display such games for sale if two-thirds of their covers were obscured like those of adult magazines.

This bill is now at Senate level.  More updates as we get them.