Your Tax Dollars at Play

Working under rules which require them to view all scenes in video games to grade their levels of sex and violence, censors in New Zealand are having a hard time getting through all the submitted games so they can be approved for sale. “It is impossible to apply the law to this medium,” complained Chief Censor Bill Hastings. He said his staff spends many hours trying to master the games to look into all the options they present. But he doesn’t think the games ought to be easier. “If I bought a computer game and I could play the whole thing in say three, four or five hours,” he admitted, “I would be ripped off.” (Reuters) ...Wouldn’t it be easier to hire a few 10-year-olds to show them the ropes?