Anti-Bullying Group Calls for Bully Ban
Bullying Online, one of the UK's lead anti-bullying charities, has renewed their opposition to Rockstar's game Bully.
The group says they had hoped their initial protests would have killed the game.
"We'd hoped that Rockstar had ditched this game following our complaints about it a year ago," said Bullying Online director Liz Carnell. "We don't think this game is likely to leave players with a warm and fuzzy feeling."
"Bullying is not fun and it's not a suitable topic for a game. This charity is contacted by thousands of parents and children a year for whom school bullying makes their lives a total misery. Up to four of the children who contact us every day are suicidal."
Carnell likens her fears for the game's effects on children to the effect some say television has on children.
"Youngsters copy what they see on TV and in games, when wrestling was popular on TV we had numerous complaints about young children hurting others by copying the behaviour they had seen on the
screen," she said. "We're very concerned that even if this game were to get an adult rating in the UK there would be nothing to stop younger members of the family playing it."
It sounds like Carnell's real concerns are with her country's rating system and the enforcement of it there. Maybe she should lay off Rockstar and start working with groups to make sure the ratings are followed.
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