Tech Daily Dose: Gamers Seeing Red Over GOP Debate http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/11/gamers-seeing-red-over-gop-deb.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2010 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:09:58 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Gamers Seeing Red Over GOP Debate Remember this summer when the Entertainment Consumers Association offered to throw a free t-shirt [link to story] to anyone willing to submit a question about videogames for the CNN/YouTube debate? Well, it turns out that didn't work. The candidates weren't asked a single question about games. (See Heather Greenfield's previous post about the overall lack of tech questions).

The folks over at GamePolitics aren't happy that videogames were shut out of the debate. But it seems that Mitt Romney, whose stance against violent media has angered a lot of gamers, still found a way to make them angry with his answer to a torture-related question in Wednesday night's forum.

So says GamePolitics: "For Romney, the take-away is that virtual violence is a horror, but real-life torture is okay. Governor, your hypocrisy is showing." Sounds like fighting words to me. -- Michael Martinez

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