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entertainment® esasoftware association www.theesa.com/article/esa-criticizes-united-nations-flawed-video-game-research/ Press Releases ESA Criticizes United Nations' Flawed Video Game Research U.N. Utilizes Outdated and Debunked Opinions on Video Games October 6, 2015- Washington, D.C. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA)today strongly criticized opinions and outdated research on video games in a new report from the United Nations entitled, "Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls." Specifically, the United Nations report utilizes hyperbolic, outlandish, and outdated notions of video games and gamers. ESA is thetrade association representing the U.S. video gameindustry The report cites an opinion article written in 2000, which is rifewith antiquated views from noted and debunked anti-video game figures. In quoting Lyndon LaRouche and his wife, Helga Zepp LaRouche, the U.N.'s source material cites Zepp LaRouche's work, "The Mark of the Beast: America's Children Arein Mortal Danger," in which she mistakenly reports that children as young as two abuse digital entertainment. Medical professionals specifically have declined repeatedly to pathologize video game use. "This is an uninformed, misguided and unfortunate report. If the overall issue was not so serious, it would belaughable that the U.N. is citing this work. It is willful ignorance to utilize such incredibly outlandish and outdated data," said Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of ESA. "ESA strongly supports empowering women and minorities and creating an inclusive digital environment that welcomes all perspectives. However, the U.N. does this important issue a great disservice and undercuts its credibility by spreading ridiculous stereotypes and false opinions." Numerous medical professionals, researchers, and courts all debunk the fundamental thesis of their argument. Intearing down similar faulty research, the U.S. Supreme Court specifically ruled that psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposureto violent video games and harmful effects on children do not provethat such exposure causes minors to act aggressively." ESA offers a wide range of services to interactive entertainment software publishers, including conducting business and consumer research, providing legal and policy analysis and advocacy on First Amendment, intellectual property andtechnology/e-commerceissues, managing a global content protection program, owning and operating E3 and representing video game industry interests in federal and state government relations. For more information, visit ESA's website or follow us on Twitter at @RichatESA or@ESAGovAffairs

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Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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