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June 13, 2005
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What are the Democrats Thinking?
Over on C|Net News, Declan McCullogh blasts Democrats for supporting bills that would regulate videogame violence (What's Behind the Video Game Witch Hunt?). He's got a point:
"In most cases these bills have been introduced by Democrats," Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, told me on Friday. "They've come from people who have aspirations for national office. They come from people who are interpreting the 2004 election as a values election and the Democrats lost on values. One way to recapture values is to attack violent entertainment, especially video games. It's a cold, calculating political effort."
Indeed. Seriously. What is wrong with the Democrats? They heavily favor Hollywood over Silicon Valley in the copyfight, and they go after videogames in a way that they don't go after Hollywood (though they talk about it a bit). Why are they doing their best to turn off the next networked generation? There have got to be better ways to demonstrate their social conservatism.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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1. Seth Finkelstein on June 13, 2005 12:47 PM writes...
Quoting Declan "Al Gore hatchet-jobber" about Democrats isn't too far from Rush Limbaugh. Heck, Limbaugh would arguably have better practical political advice.
Fanatical netheads are maybe 1% of the voting population. Appealing to that demographic may be a good pundit niche, but that's far from a good electoral strategy.
Permalink to Comment2. Ernest Miller on June 13, 2005 01:24 PM writes...
Positioning themselves as anti-freedom luddites is not a way to build a stable majority for the future.
Permalink to Comment3. Seth Finkelstein on June 13, 2005 01:54 PM writes...
How do you know? Karl Rove's winning strategy idea was to mobilize theocrats :-(.
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