Christian Group Focuses on 'Wii Smut' > protect us from ourselves!

protect us from ourselves!

Maxo, the problem here is that GENERALLY the religious groups don't leave it at just "informing". I agree if this is only left at letting parents know they need to be cautious as their children will potentially have access to pron. But then again they shouldn't have to be "informed" if they are taking an active parenting role in their child's life.

What happens more often than not, they take radical steps to "correct" what they see as wrong.

It's the same thing I saw happen so many times with petition's being passed around the church to pull Howard Stern off the air when he was on "Free FM". No matter if you like him or not, you have the choice to change the channel. Instead they would like to have those things that they don't agree with banned and not have to actively participate in their child's welfare.

I think it then depends on, assuming they are receiving tax dollars, if the money is being spent on this public awareness announcement (if that's what one wants to call it.)
Usually when an organization receives tax money it has to document exactly what that is used for. For example, my wife teaches ESE, a federally funded project. This money was used to purchase a handful of PDAs. Administration decided the PDAs would be put to better use by them. It actually was true that they had more use for them than ESE. Because it was purchased using federal money specifically for ESE the administration was not allowed to use them.
So, if this group does receive federal money they have to document exactly what they use it for. If that money was used for this they would have to document it. If this money was spent inappropriately they would be in trouble.
And, even if that was the case, and they were getting away with it, there's no reason to even speculate on that possibility as we have no evidence they are getting the money, and we have no evidence they are abusing they money they may or may not be getting.
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reply to The Monkey

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reply to Maxo
Like I said, IF this is left at the stage of informing parents (and that alone) that they need to activate the parental controls, I have no problem with what they are doing.

But, as I'm reading these posts here, I think a lot of people are very wary of any religious groups bringing up issues such as this since the majority of the time it's more extreme than just "informing".

And as many other's have said here, why is Nintendo getting singled out for internet access when other consoles give the same access to the internet? If they are actually out to inform, my thought is they should be making this a general statement to ALL consoles that allow internet access. Hell my old Sega Dreamcast had a built in browser and modem to access the internet and I never saw issues like this with that console.

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said by hopeflicker:

said by The Monkey:

No it doesn't. And most groups I know of do not readily disclose such information. Unfortunately, there is no easily-available list of the religious groups that receive federal funding.

Um, the Boys Scouts do. And they are a religious, brainwashing cult

This irks me!!!

It's not the boy scouts that are cults, it's the religious organization that started it.
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