British politician wants ‘red button’ to block games
ThisIsDerbyshire reports that Glenis Willmot, a British politician that holds the East Midlands constitute, has remarked that it would be a good idea for game consoles to have “red button” that parents could use to stop their kids playing video games.
She comments that she backs the recommendation, which was started in other European countries, that would see all consoles installed with a red button. Parents could then quickly press the button to block access to games at certain times.
“Research shows video games are useful for educational and medical purposes – and they can be good fun. But not all of them have content which parents will be happy with,” she said.
“Online games, which are easy to download on to a PC or mobile phone, make parental control even harder.”
If you are not keeping up to date, all games consoles currently have parental controls built into their firmware, and also have an off-button somewhere on their person. Is this not enough?
8 comments ↓
Monkey Rimmer
March 16th, 2009
Doesn’t she realise the X360 comes not only with a red button, but a nice big red ring that stops those pesky kids playing ALL games!
Instead of kicking this crap argument up again, why don’t these parents actually take some interest in the sprogs they’ve spawned thus ensuring that they know what and when the kids are playing! Why is it always someone elses responsibility? Why do these people even bother to have kids? Sheesh!
Seth
March 16th, 2009
What a non-existent point.. Parents have the tools to control what their children are playing, so the fault certainly doesn’t lie with the hardware or software manufacturers.
steve : (
March 16th, 2009
This is why I don’t vote.
These innitiatives are always well supported by people who don’t understand the issue at all but they have ground. one day one of them will get off the ground and then its time to worry as a gamer.
I think the arguement here tho is that parental controls need to be more dumbed down into the form of a button for clueless parents (who are always right as far as votes are concerned) to actually make the effort.
ha!
March 16th, 2009
What a stupid woman.
ha!
March 16th, 2009
What an ugly woman
David Macphail
March 16th, 2009
Next they’ll be asking for a big red “Master” button to be put in the houses of parliament that can stop everyone in Europe from playing video games at all with one push.
It just shows that some people have WAY too much time on their hands………….
ha!
March 16th, 2009
Next they’ll be asking for a big red “Master” button to be put in the houses of parliament that can stop everyone in Europe from playing video games at all with one push.
It just shows that some people have WAY too much time on their hands………….
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THIS IS WHY I DONT VOTE AND DONT THINK SNUYJIMH ONE ELSE SHOULD EITHER
Mashimato
March 16th, 2009
Parents should start being parents and than we will not have the government coming down on us like this.