Head of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under Russian President Valery Fadeev.
Photo: Mikhail FROLOV
On Saturday, August 18, information appeared that at the Army-2023 forum during the round table “Computer games as a factor in national defense and security” the head of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of Russia Valery Fadeev ” asked to ban video games with scenes of violence and blood.”
… – Before you ban, you need to sort everything out, – Valery Alexandrovich said on the air of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda. – In that “round table” in question, only video game scenes were shown: there, a Soviet army officer “cruelly shoots” other participants in the video game. Well, at the “round table” they said that there are a lot of such things.
First you need to watch, study this content and not ban everything.
If, in fact, there is something outrageous, then a decision must be made.
And, before making a decision, it is necessary to introduce the videogames themselves into the circulation of information products. Do you understand?
– Certainly.
– It’s one thing – books, movies, and another – video games. I said about it.
– And who should do it? Who should put into circulation, as you said, video games? Who should recognize video games as information products?
– I don’t know. This must be discussed with legislators.
So pompously that you don’t have to. Before banning something, we must look carefully: did we ban it?
If we treat this too bureaucratically, we will immediately “ban” it. You need to be careful. Here is my easy position.
– That is, these are legislators, some specialized committees of the State Duma?
– Certainly. And the HRC is ready to participate, and those professionals in this “round table”.
Yes, it was within the framework of the army forum, which is now taking place in Kubinka.
Serious professionals participated there, both the creators of the games and the players themselves.
And such a problem was discussed, and it’s good that they paid attention to it.
– We also looked at this and it is very good that you have deciphered your thought and thesis. As always, clear and clear.
