Joining Sen. Brownback (R-Kansas) on the anti-games bandwagon of 2007, is Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) filing the "Video Game Decency Act" -- again. Upton is looking to punish companies using the full power of the Federal Trade Commission that intend on "obtaining a less restrictive age-based content rating" by failing to disclose content in the video game that is required to be disclosed to the ESRB. Essentially Upton doesn't want people lying for their ratings. Brownback's law asks for all games to be played all the way through before being rated, while Upton's law looks to punish those that "hide" the naughty stuff in their games.As GamePolitics points out, this new act by Upton is practically the same bill he proposed in 2006. The bill expired when the new Congress came into power earlier this year. These federal game laws are certainly more dangerous than state laws, but we're saying the best of the worst proposals is still Rep. Brian Kolb's "sodomy, rape, incest, bestiality, or sado-masochism" video game confiscation law in New York. All these bills still clearly point to a very sad generation gap.
