Hot Coffee, where's your moral outrage on this one?

Posted by nuxi on 2005-Jul-27 at 19:06:26 in SNAFU (Login to reply)

After the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee outrage story broke on /. I jokingly suggested that they should really be targetting Maxis for the Nude Sims patch. This patch, like Hot Coffee, merely enables content already contained, but unplayable, in the game. Well it seems like someone took the bait. I figure I'm on a roll, so why stop with the Sims?

The most widely recognized magazine in the world regularly publishes nude pictures of people. This magazine is stocked by most public libraries and school libraries. The August issue contains nudity on a two-page spread. What magazine you ask? None other than National Geographic, check the August 2005 ZipUSA section for the most recent examples.

So acceptable content for a respected magazine results in The Sims getting reclassified as Adults Only? Maybe we should be checking IDs and marking National Geographic as Adults Only. Please, think of the children! Oh wait, NGM doing it is 'tasteful'.