"The CTA does not allow advertising for alcohol or tobacco products and this ordinance is consistent with that long-standing policy," she said...

Videogames are now alcohol and tobacco products? Hmmmmmmm........Consistent with that policy huh? I've been to Chicago several times. Nothing consistent about it. They still have adverts for alcohol in various places in the city.

"The guidelines, she said, require ads to be truthful and not directed at inciting imminent lawless action. The ads cannot be legally obscene, sexually explicit, depict nudity or portray graphic violence nor can they incite lawless illegal action."

So an image of three men, and a game logo counts as that? Hrmmm...no nudity...no violence....nothing sexually explicit....nothing obscene (unless you are Jack)...and nothing inciting lawless illegal action.... In short to CTA: F A I L

They were PAID to display adverts, they defaulted on their contract. Now they are facing the wrath of doing something they shouldn't have. They brought this on themselves.

Why do these ignorant people keep insisting that video games are somehow on the same level as Alcohol and Tobacco? They are nothing at alike. Video games are an artform protected by the First Amendment. Alcohol and Tobacco are substances that can harm the healt hof anyone who uses them and are not protected by the First Amendment.

The guidelines, she said, require ads to be truthful and not directed at inciting imminent lawless action. The ads cannot be legally obscene, sexually explicit, depict nudity or portray graphic violence nor can they incite lawless illegal action.

Please tell me what M rated game has advertisments that fall into any of those categories? By blanket banning all M rated game ads you are violating this very ideal. An M rated game can be advertised quite effectively without violating any of those provisions.

Morons.

E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma

I seem to recall that the ads showed no unlawful activites, not even any weaponry.  They simply showed various characters from the GTA game.

Funny, she names all of those guidelines and these ads fall into absolutely none of them.

I'd love it if they cited the same tired studies, biased, and flawed as their reason for the ban.

"The guidelines, she said, require ads to be truthful and not directed at inciting imminent lawless action."

So buying M rated games is now illegal in Chicago? Dennis how could you have missed such an important story? I mean hell there's no way she would just spout random facts unrelated to the case at hand.

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Debates are like merry go rounds. Two people take their positions then they go through the same points over and over and over again. Then when it's over they have the same positions they started in.

"The ads cannot be legally obscene, sexually explicit, depict nudity or portray graphic violence nor can they incite lawless illegal action."

So some guys standing around with the title of the game is legally obscene, there's not even an image of a gun ROFL epic fail. I'm looking forward to seeing the ESA rape them in court on this. These grey haired old men need to be taught a lesson that your not going to bully our industry without consequences. I applaud the ESA

Oh and what about ads for R-rated movies I remember when I was 15(still too young to see R-rated movies) seeing an ad for 50 Cent's movie on a bus and when the Matrix sequels came out I was only in junior high and they were being advertised on there as well.

Oh and I also remember seeing an ad for Blitz 2 on a CTA bus one time yet it was only the ads for GTAIV that caused an uproar.