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"Back in the early days of film, there was just no telling what damage the celluloid appearance of sulky Swede Greta Garbo might be inflicting on America’s impressionable youth.

"So it was that in 1931, some 40 religious and educational groups pressed Uncle Sam to regulate the film industry and thus protect minors from damage they might suffer from being exposed to ‘harmful’ content.

"Skip forward to 2005, and you can’t mistake the echo of that familiar argument in the push by legislators and private interest groups to get government to do something about violent video and computer games–the only difference being the particular object of society’s collective ire."

Charles Cooper. If Video Games Kill, What About the Bible?. News.com. March 18, 2005.

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