Brazilian senator hopes to ban sale of 'offensive' games
by Griffin McElroy 
on Dec 5th 2009 7:30PM
Though Brazil is no stranger to
banning video games, a recently proposed bill from Senator Valdir Raupp certainly seems pretty drastic. Raupp's bill, which was recently passed by the Education Commission of the Senate, and will now go to vote in the Committee on Constitution and Justice, seeks to "curb the manufacture, distribution, importation, distribution, trading and custody, storage [of] the video games that affect the customs [and] traditions of the people, their worship, creeds, religions and symbols."
According to
Brazilian news site UOL, if the bill passes, folks caught violating the law could be subject to one to three years imprisonment. That's quite a bit of jail time to serve for just importing a copy of
Grand Theft Auto IV, dont'cha think?
[Via
GamePolitics]
