> Speaking of cliches, I suppose that old thing about how free speech doesn't give you the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, applies here. You can't preach the violent overthrow of the government, either. Why would teaching murder be acceptable?
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> I guess I was thinking of something more than censorship. Right or wrong, we ban a lot of stuff than is not as bad as that.
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> I wonder what would happen if someone marketed a game about assassinating the president?
> Howard

Would we also ban games where you kill aliens, zombies, terrorists or pedestrians, all of which have been the premise for best-selling games in the last few years?

I'm with Stephen on this; there's a difference between speech which directly threatens physical harm (death threats, inciting riots), and publishing screeds on why the White Man is morally superior to the Other Races. Poorly-made computer games are no different from books in this respect, and giving them additional exposure by trying to ban them is only going to be counter-productive.

If there are people who feel the need to act out murders, I'd personally far rather they did so in a computer game than in real life. I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that playing these games leads people to murder, beyond a couple of dubious anecdotes.