Joe Biden was previously the vice president in the Barack Obama administration, and now, we see him amongst the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates. But who knows for how long.
He called the Silicon Valley game developers „little creeps,” whose games teach people how to kill. (While we aren’t dealing with political surveying, we think the interview with The New York Times will impact Biden’s popularity).
„You may recall, the criticism I got for meeting with the leaders in Silicon Valley, when I was trying to work out an agreement dealing with them protecting intellectual property for artists in the United States of America, and at one point, one of the little creeps sitting around that table, who was a multi- — close to a billionaire — who told me he was an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people, you know the ——,” Biden said. He talked about video games here.
In 2013, he already called for legal restrictions on violent media by taxing such products (including video games). He believes that while no definitive proof exists linking violent games and media with acts of real violence, the public shouldn’t be afraid of „facts” which may come from research on the matter.
„I was lectured by one of the senior leaders there that by saying if I insisted on what Leahy’d put together and we were, I thought we were going to fully support, that they would blow up the network, figuratively speaking. Have everybody contact. They get out and go out and contact the switchboard, just blow it up. And then one of these righteous people said to me that, you know, “We are the economic engine of America. We are the ones.” And fortunately, I had done a little homework before I went and I said, you know, I find it fascinating. As I added up the seven outfits, everyone’s there but Microsoft. I said you have fewer people on your payroll than all the losses that General Motors just faced in the last quarter, of employees. So don’t lecture me about how you’ve created all this employment. The point is, there’s an arrogance about it, an overwhelming arrogance that we are, we are the ones. We can do what we want to do. I disagree,” he added.
He brought up the § 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The act is mostly about pornographic content, but this paragraph’s policy aims to help platform owners avoid being blamed for the content generated by its users. Biden wishes to abolish it entirely. „In every other revolution that we’ve had technologically, it’s taken somewhere between six years and a generation for a government to come in and level the playing field again. […] This is gigantic. And it’s a responsibility of government to make sure it is not abused. Not abused. And so this is one of those areas where I think it’s being abused,” he added.
Harsh words.
Source: VG247
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