Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is harsh on the video game and technology industries.
In an interview with The New York Times, the promising president described the game developers he crawled, "justice" and "arrogance" during the White House, referring to his work with senior executives in the silicon industry. personal experience. Valley.
"You may remember the criticism I was having when meeting with Silicon Valley leaders," Biden said. "At the time, I was trying to make an agreement asking them to protect the intellectual property rights of artists in the United States of America." "At some point, sitting One of the little weirds at the table, he was a multiplayer-close to a billionaire-he told me he was an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people, you know-"
"It's like a video game," an interviewer for the New York Times said. Biden had previously asked for some legal restrictions on violent games, and in 2013 suggested that taxing violent media has no legal purpose. He also said that although there is no conclusive evidence linking violent games and the media to real violence, the public should not be concerned that a "fact" might be drawn from research on the matter.
Biden continued:
Yes, video games. A senior leader gave me a lecture there, and he said that if I insisted on Leahy's idea and we did it, I think we would fully support it and they would metaphorically exaggerate the network. Have everyone contact. They went out and contacted the switchboard to blow it up.
"Then one of these righteous people said to me, you know," We are the economic engine of the United States. Fortunately, I did some homework before I went and I said, you know, I thought it was very interesting. When I add up these 7 outfits, everyone is there except Microsoft. I said that you have fewer employees than all the employees that GM just faced last quarter. So don't teach me information about how you create all these jobs.
"The point is, this is a kind of arrogance, we are overwhelming arrogance, we are the kind. We can do what we want to do. I don't agree."
Biden's exemption is called section 230 of the Communications Regulations Act. Loosely, the purpose of this strategy is to help platform owners avoid being blamed for their user-generated content. Alternatively, in legal terms: "A provider or user of any interactive computer service should not be considered a publisher or spokesperson of any information provided by another information content provider."
Biden not only demanded a reform of this provision, but also sought to completely abolish it. Biden explained: "The truth is that in every technological revolution we have undertaken, it took the government about six years to go through a generation." Suddenly, remember that Lutherans shattered A machine in the central region? When culture changes, this is their answer. The same goes for TV. Until then, the radio was the same. The same thing, but this is huge. The government has a responsibility to ensure that it is not abused. Not to be abused. So this is one of the areas where I think it is being abused. "
