A hornets’ nest of fury over a video game that urges its players to “kill the Haitians” has prompted a South Florida city to approve — at least initially — a sweeping ordinance to regulate games sold or rented to minors. The law, proposed by North Miami’s Joe Celestin, a Haitian-American, imposes a $250 fine on anyone who sells or rents to minors without their parents’ consent games in which players kill or cause harm “to a human form.”
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Video Game Violence Leads to Florida Law
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 20, 2004 11:11 AMA hornets’ nest of fury over a video game that urges its players to “kill the Haitians” has prompted a South Florida city to approve — at least initially — a sweeping ordinance to regulate games sold or rented to minors. The law, proposed by North Miami’s Joe Celestin, a Haitian-American, imposes a $250 fine on anyone who sells or rents to minors without their parents’ consent games in which players kill or cause harm “to a human form.”