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Videogames as Free-Speech Issue

Jess Bravin, Senior Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 1, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Videogame designers at ZeniMax Media Inc.’s Bethesda Softworks destroyed a virtual U.S. Capitol, Jefferson Memorial and other landmarks in the Mature-rated “Fallout 3,” which depicts the ruins of post-apocalyptic Washington. They didn’t bother to obliterate the U.S. Supreme Court. But in the real world, that’s where the $10.5 billion videogame industry faces its greatest threat.

KidZui’s Parent Plan Lets Children Explore in Safe Corner of Web

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 20, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

A new service called KidZui aims to offer kids a safe subset of the Internet where they can roam freely without triggering parental worry.