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Contrary to modern revisionism from game journos, the censorship of the gaming prior and up to the end of the Thompson era was an overwhelmingly bi-partisan movement. For fucks sake, anyone need only look to Hillary Clinton and her now infamous "violent video games are like lead poisoning" speech.
Censorship in the past 70 or so years has overwhelmingly been a bi-partisan point in America, and never let the revisionists tell you otherwise.
Tipper Gore was neither a Christian nor right-wing, despite what the jacka
lss above would have us believe.The anti-media fervor in the 80s through the 00s may have been puritanical, but its vanguard was primarily comprised of moralizing leftists.
It's always just about power. The busybodies in power didn't really care, other than they could seize the opportunity to put the federal government in charge of what goes in front of people's eyeballs.
Look at what public education has turned into to understand why.
Turns out, like censoring citizens online, it didn't actually need a federal law structure. Just useful idiots and backslapping from fellow retards in response to virtue signal points by performing censorship stopping just short of actual government employees hitting the buttons themselves.
And it should be explicitly stated that the vast, vast majority of politicians of any label are this way. Plenty of Republicans pay lip-service to "small" government, but how many truly follow through when they hold all the power? How many really make any progress? Actions speak far louder than words, and the reality is that Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) are not the exception like the term implies.
Expansion of state power has always been a bi-partisan goal, with each "side" believing that eventually they will be the one in control to use that power For The Greater Good™. Shockingly, it never really turns out that way, does it? Maybe doing the same thing over and over and over isn't the solution?
What I mostly remember Tipper Gore for, is getting song lyrics in all the albums, which was an awesome thing, actually. It was always such a bonus if there were lyrics with the record, because, yes, often the words WERE hard to discern thanks to poppy, scratchy vinyl records played through cheap but costly, tinny-ass speakers (or hissy cassette tape played through even worse speakers.)
"Can you play 'I Ain't Jay' by The Rolling Stones?" "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" etc
So she didn't really censor anything - the point was just so that parents would know what their kids were listening to - and her move was popular, just not for the reasons (or with the people) she intended.
Thinking further on it, I don't even really understand why there was such mockery of this, and the only people to have any reason to hate it would have been the lyrics publishers/rightsolders themselves, and/or the album publishers, but any expense related to printing lyrics would have been passed on to the customer, anyway ....