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Hillary Clinton is thinking about the children.

Sen. Hillary Clinton pressed Thursday for a government investigation into how simulated sex cropped up in a modified version of the blockbuster criminal adventure video game “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.” […]

“We should all be deeply disturbed that a game which now permits the simulation of lewd sexual acts in an interactive format with highly realistic graphics has fallen into the hands of young people across the country,” Clinton wrote in a letter to the head of the Federal Trade Commission.

Saying the problem of explicit video games was “spiraling out of control,” Clinton also said she was introducing legislation that would crack down on the sale of violent and sex-laden games to minors. […]

Clinton asked the FTC to look into whether Grand Theft Auto’s rating of “M” (Mature 17+) should be changed to the rare “AO” (Adult Only), which would threaten to crimp sales at large retail outlets.

She won.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has changed the rating of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on all platforms from “Mature 17+” (M) to “Adults Only 18+” (AO) because of the so-called “hot coffee mod,” an unauthorized third party modification that alters the retail version of the game.

Most major retailers won’t stock AO games, so this is going to hurt.

One Plastic poster notes:

From my observation, GTA:SA and its predecessors allow you, the player, to:

• Beat to death anyone you encounter on the street with a baseball bat (you get to see animated pools of blood, hear them cry, and watch their body twist)

• Throw a molotov cocktail at a crowded group of pedestrians and watch as they burn to a black skeletal crisp

• Go to the beach, encounter a woman in her bikini, point a gun at her head, watch her put up her hands and beg for her life, and then blow her head off

• Stand on a second story of a building, and toss grenades at crowds of people below while you watch their limbs bounce around

• Torch someone with a flamethrower, then watch as they run into other people and set them on fire

• Dismember people with a chainsaw, or carving knife

• Shoot a cop, then shoot the next cop that comes after you, then blow up the police cars they send at you, then steal the FBI car that comes for you, then blow the police helicopter out of the sky with your bazooka, and then, after a few tries, steal the Army tank they send after you

But, thank god you can’t get the character to engage in sexual acts outside of his car. If kids saw that, they might get the wrong ideas about what is socially acceptable.

And, Wonkette sez:

We’ve been hearing about this, ahem, plug-in for GTA for quite a bit now. It apparently interrupts the action in this brutally violent first person shooter by allowing the protagonist to do some hard core fucking. If the argument is that player see, player do, we would think this is a good thing. Let’s face it, if the Trench Coat Mafia had gotten laid more, there’d be one less Michael Moore movie to suffer through.

(Did Senator Clinton spend too much time hanging out with Tipper Gore?)