After Mass Shooting, Fox News Host Suggests Gamers Should Be Monitored

It never ends.

http://kotaku.com/after-mass-shooting-fox-news-host-wonders-if-gamers-sh-1335462866

A hot topic, a live microphone, a knee-jerk response and nothing between the ears apart from some wax - that's Fox News for you.

Movie goers and comic book readers should be monitored. Women that see how the Kardasians have failed marriages and get divorced should be monitored.

I grew up on Doom, shitty death metal and horror movies. Yet I never once thought of hurting anyone or anything. Heck if I can save a spider from a drain I will. I won't touch a gun. Not everyone grows up to be a gun toting psychopath.

What's wrong with me that I haven't killed people with a gun? Clearly video games make people kill one another with guns. Fox news is making me feel like a reject for not killing a mall full of people :-( Maybe one day I'll man up and tell the world Fox news made me feel like I should go on a rampage.

Gamers are monitored anyway. Steam, achievements and so on. Game companies know what you do.

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So now every CS, COD, ARMA, etc. server will be swarmed by FBI and CIA agents? Don't they already have pedos to lure by posing as kids or somesuch?

I can imagine some FBI goon trying to bait "suspects" into incriminating themselves in team chats e.g.

[UndercoverFBIAgent]: I like guns!
[RandomAssCSPlayer]: Sure, whatever buddy.
[UndercoverFBIAgent]: I mean, it's cool to shoot and stuff, right!
[RandomAssCSPlayer]: Uh, sure buddy, whatever you say!
[UndercoverFBIAgent]: AHA! GOTCHA! YOU'RE THE NEXT SCHOOL SHOOTER!

I watched about 25 seconds of the video, and had to stop. Its really frustrating to listen to these fucking morons.

I wish the multi-billion dollar video game industry would invest more money in persuading these dumb asses in D.C. to be advocates of their business.

Of course the government has its reasons:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2013/05/15/yes-joe-biden-there-is-a-legal-reason-you-cant-tax-video-games/

they probably played uac ultra 2

Kontra Kommando said:

Of course the government has its reasons:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2013/05/15/yes-joe-biden-there-is-a-legal-reason-you-cant-tax-video-games/

If the First Amendment doesn't go against creating taxes on specific kinds of content, then I will agree with a tax on violent video game as long as it is accompanied by a tax on stupid television broadcasts.

The money from Fox News alone should be enough to solve the USA's debt problems.

If someone wants to come over and watch me play video games, that's cool. Heck, with streams and Let's Plays, gamers are already monitoring each other.

It's funny how the government reprimands companies for making video game violence similar to reality. While at the same time, the government is working to make war more like a video game.

They're afraid hackers will be able to use their Counter-Strike experience to hijack the US Army combat drones that will inevitably be sent to terminate the next uprising of the 99%.

These people will forever be idiots it seems.

I totally want gamers to be monitored. I'd love to find out who's keeping the shitty 'blockbuster' game machine well-funded and shoot them myself.

Gez said:

They're afraid hackers will be able to use their Counter-Strike experience to hijack the US Army combat drones that will inevitably be sent to terminate the next uprising of the 99%.

No government, you are the Counter-Strike hackers.

And then the 99% was a drone. Or the drones were the 99%?

UK-side, ITV News (as well as a number of redtop newspapers) jumped on the "Driven To Kill By CoD" bandwagon. As a lifelong fan of violent video games and movies, I find myself saddened every day something as tragic as this takes place, only for it to be turned into a propaganda weapon for dickheads.

As Chris Rock once said: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO "CRAZY"?!

I wonder how long they and people like them can keep this "video games are evil" fad alive. Most gamers are adults now, so they pretty much only have some grumpy old farts to appeal to.

And when the zombie / demon / alien / nazi apocalypse comes somehow Fox News will be praising video games for saving us all. I can hear the interviews now... when the army was obliterated and the aliens abducted everyone over the age of 14, it was up to me to win the war. I never used a real gun before, but I just found it next to a dead soldier. Then I realized it was what I had been training for all 13 years of my life. Now look! Zombie heads hanging in my room.

This is how uninformed Fox News is; Xbox One WILL in fact be monitoring gamers. This is also an example of how business works better than government. Microsoft is going to get paid $400 plus for each unit to do this, while government would spend resources and take flak from its constituency.

EDIT: On top of that, Microsoft is going to make even more money by selling what they have collected, to the government. I can see it now, they'll have some half-backed research, showing examples of anger, and hostility from videos of kids that get into a cursing fit when they lose. They'll use footage of little brats throwing their controller across the room, and come to the conclusion that video games are damaging to youth.

How's this for damaging for the youth?:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/high-school-football-player-dies-helmet-injury-brocton_n_3941680.html

But nobody is going to ban football, even though its a game where a kid can actually get killed. Instead, they'll pay taxes so the schools could be funded to facilitate the game. If someone has the logic: this kid played violent video games, therefore that's why he killed, in this case you can argue: Since the people of the town paid for the football team, the blood of this child is on their hands. Fucking ridiculous.

Mario causes bug stompings. Frogger makes kids cross busy highways. Mario Paint made kids become graphic designers. Comics made women get implants and men lift weights to an unhealthy degree. Natural Born Killers caused prison riots. Q Bert made kids climb pyramids. Star Trek Online makes people build their own rocket ships. Polybius was a government funded game that made teens have amnesia, insomnia, nightmares, seizures, fight and kill themselves.

Ed Schultz was echoing Hasselback on one of his recent shows. Never thought I'd type that sentence.

I don't know what it is. For a long time I thought it was people were just trying to find blame in something and were purposely turning a blind eye to the real problem in this country because it's much easier to blame something like video games than to do an iota of actual parenting. "Me spend time with my kids, who's got time for that?".

But now, I'm starting to really believe people are this dumb. Lousy parents who don't value their children's mental health blaming video games for their negligence. That's all it is, that's all it has ever been. Not really hard to figure out.

Kontra Kommando said:

I can see it now, they'll have some half-backed research, showing examples of anger, and hostility from videos of kids that get into a cursing fit when they lose.

Why wait? :-p

Kontra Kommando said:

This is how uninformed Fox News is; Xbox One WILL in fact be monitoring gamers. This is also an example of how business works better than government. Microsoft is going to get paid $400 plus for each unit to do this, while government would spend resources and take flak from its constituency.

Yes, it's an example of how business is potentially even better at being insidiously evil than government. As for working better, the rest of the West pities Americans with their shady health insurance. :p

It doesn't surprise me FOX is saying crap like this. Video games probably hurt their profits (reasons MS won't do anything to make gaming look bad btw...). What boggles the mind is more sane companies are still doing the games == violence thing. Don't they have enough people from the gaming generations working for them yet to stop this crap? You'd think the ad agencies would be quite angry with companies of any sort trashing games these days.

I used to get irritated at Fox's insane opinions and accusations.

Now I can't take them serious enough to even raise an eyebrow.

I think this mindset is straight out of the 90's Columbine response. I would actually like the FBI to monitor gamers because I think it would be a total game changer. Just imagine:

[FBI Representative] "People that play these games have issues of a social nature and should be monitored to prevent these attacks on innocents from happening"

In practise it'd be the most boring and tedious thing to do.

[FBI Agent Monitoring a Gamer] "Oh look, there he/she is off to his/her girlfriend's/boyfriend's house."

[FBI Agent Monitoring a Gamer] "Oh holy shit he/she's off to University! IT'S GOING TO BE A MASSACRE! Oh wait... He/she's just socialising with friends."

So a mentally ill man with anger management issues was able to legally buy guns and shoot 12 people. Yep, sounds like video games were the issue.

Has that video game called "Doom" or "Gloom" or something like that been banned yet?

<FOX> There's even one to train the blind! </FOX>

It's actually a neat game idea, though a bit primitive. Also crazy hard.

As much as the outside world laughs at Fox news... I'm sure their actual demographic says yes! I'm kicking my grand kids off video games! My baby won't be shooting up anything!

The other week, my friend, who owns a bunch of guns, took us to the shooting range. Before that, we were going over safety tips, and he was teaching us how to load clips, and chambers. During all this, I thought to myself, "this is definitely NOT like a fucking video game". Handling an actual gun is a totally different dynamic from playing a violent video game. But this is what this out of touch politicians and parents don't understand, because they have never actually sat down, and played a game. I'm sure a big part of them haven't handled a gun either, therefore its easy for them to equate the two experiences as being similar from the surface.