RALPH NADER: VIDEO GAME MAKERS ARE "ELECTRONIC CHILD MOLESTE

Let's see if I have it right -- Hollywood sends movies around the world that broadcast the message of freedom so loudly that it brought down the Berlin Wall and caused the Soviet Union to collapse. Here at home the power of media is very weak. Even seeing thousands and thousands of murders at an early age will not cause a child to be more disposed to violence. The most brutal misogynistic sexual violence never causes violent crime against women. Do not attempt to maintain both of these concepts in your mind simultaneously. It could damage your brain.

RALPH NADER: VIDEO GAME MAKERS ARE "ELECTRONIC CHILD MOLESTE

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RALPH NADER: VIDEO GAME MAKERS ARE "ELECTRONIC CHILD MOLESTERS"
by Dara Kerr
CNET
January 22, 2013

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Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader speaks during a news conference July 2, 2012 at Public Citizen in Washington, DC. / Alex Wong/Getty Images

Political activist and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader has come down hard on video games. In fact, he has gone as far as to call the companies that make them "electronic child molesters."

In a recent interview with Politico, Nader blasted President Obama's gun control package that was unveiled last week. The two-time Green Party presidential candidate said that the president's plan needs to go further in regulating video game creators that add violence to their games.

"Television program violence? Unbelievable. Video game violence? Unprecedented," Nader told Politico. "I'm not saying he wants to censor this, I think he should sensitize people that they should protect their children family by family from these kinds of electronic child molesters."[sic]

Nader's outrage comes on the heels of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six others were killed by a 20-year-old shooter.

This isn't the first time Nader has used the phrase "electronic child molesters." After the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo., in 1999 when two students from the school murdered 12 students and one teacher, Nader raged that corporations shared some of the blame.

"All this is fine with the companies -- these boys and girls spent more than $25 billion last year, and what they got in return is violent, addictive, and tawdry sensuality," Nader wrote in his blog at the time. "These electronic child molesters have little sense of restraint or boundaries. Their odious fare is becoming more coarse, more violent, and more interactive to seduce these youngsters into an addiction of direct video game involvement in the mayhem."

This article originally appeared on CNET under the headline "Ralph Nader: Video game firms are 'electronic child molesters.'"

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