Comments on: Gamer’s Voice on Facebook. Tom Watson gets it right

By: Sharpieness

Sharpieness — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:02:53 +0000

Theres now politics on how people spend their spare time in their own home?

By: Fran

Fran — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:10:37 +0000

There’s a difference between Ed Vaizey and Tom Watson, IMHO. Tom is interested in the games industry because, well, he’s interested in the games industry. Ed is interested in the games industry because it’s within his remit in the shadow government.

Come the next shadow cabinet reshuffle (if before the election), Vaizy won’t still be campaigning for the games industry. Watson will.

And therein lies the difference.

By: Steven L

Steven L — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:45:29 +0000

There is also a good Facebook group to join called “P45 for Keith Vaz”

Noticed membership booming after his idiotic comments yesterday.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:49:53 +0000

In the House of Commons yesterday:
Keith Vaz.
“Is the Minister aware that at midnight tonight a new and violent videogame called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is to be released? It contains such scenes of brutality that even the manufacturers have put in warnings within the game telling people how they can skip particular scenes. Given the recommendations of the Byron Review, what steps is the government proposing to take in order to ensure these violent games do not fall into the hands of children and young people?”

Tom Watson.
“I’ve seen the content in this videogame. It is unpleasant, though no worse than in many films and books, it is an 18-plus game and carries the BBFC 18-plus rating as well. Does the Minister agree that it would be better for this House to support the many thousands of games designers and coders and the many millions of games users, rather than collaborating with the Daily Mail to create moral panic over the use of videogames?”