More GTA IV Stupidity
People have an understanding of games as toys, and not as media. This causes them to have odd reactions to the discoveries of current games. At least, that’s what I think.
Appearantly, GTA IV includes a parody situation in which if the player tries to access littlelacysurpisepageant.com on the game’s faux internet, the player will see a warning from the police department and their wanted level will automatically raise to the maximum level.
We could look at this logically and realize that the inclusion of this site in the game is parody, that the player is punished for visiting the site, and that the purpose of this site’s inclusion in the game and it’s consequences is to make the point that child porn is something you can get arrested for. And obviously all of us (or at least the non-sleazy majority) can agree that kiddy-porn is wrong.
But people don’t look at it like this. It’s crazy to me that there would be any controversy around this message, that people would see it as “glamorizing” child pornography. Not everything included in a game is meant to be a goal.