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I almost considered not including this post since it amounts to yet another ‘moral crusader’ parading about the ‘evils’ of Grand Theft Auto 4; however, he even goes as far as to brand gamers as ‘losers.’

The video where he does his ‘rant’ is below:

What is sad is that even though he brings in an expert who is able to use evidence to disprove his points, he ignores her and gets back on his soapbox.

Glenn seems to have the answer to everything, apparently, much like his ‘vision’ for changing America, which can be found here.

The news concerning transit officials removing advertisments for Grand Theft Auto 4 has reached critical mass, first with the Chicago Transit Authority revoking its adverts and now Miami-Dade Transit doing the same.

After a period of silence from the industry concerning these actions, Take-Two has responded by suing the CTA for their actions, claiming that their decision was ‘outrageous.

According to Gamespot’s report, Take-Two’s decision to sue the CTA came from their “refusal to discuss with us its outrageous decision to pull advertising for the critically acclaimed game Grand Theft Auto IV while running ads for other forms of popular entertainment with similar content, including mature-themed TV shows and R-rated movies.”

In other words, the CTA, like most associations, deems it acceptable to apply a double standard to video games.

Speaking of matters in Chicago area, yet another government official is voicing his opinion, this time finding fault with Second Life, a alternate reality game where players can live life as they see fit. It shares many similarities with World of Warcraft, a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) except there is less of an emphasis on fighting.

More information can be found here. After reading this article, it amounts to another individual using ‘the danger’ of emergent media forms as a means to ’scare’ parents and obtain votes. There has to be a point where this tactic will prove a failure. Too bad it is not any time soon.

At least sites like Gamepolitics are willing to stand up for the industry and investigate what causes these actions to occur, such as interviewing Miami Dade Transit about why they revoked their GTA 4 ads.

The responses in the article seem lukewarm, with the company making it clear that the very mention of Grand Theft Auto 4 was worth revoking the ads, considering what they THINK the game stands for, even though the actions on the ads themselves are fairly static.