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Right-Wing Christian Group Ethur Raises Issue with Nintendo's Wii

Group Membership Cites Web Porn Sites as Motivation; Group Also Owns Porn-Awareness Website

By Jeffrey Davis, published Mar 01, 2007
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Quick scenario: it is 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the kids beat you home. Do you know what they are doing online... after they turned on the videogame console?

Probably not... but perhaps you should.

Therefore, it should not be surprising that you just might find a little - or should I say wiitle - new report circulating online that just might clue you in on some creative solutions to making sure it does not happen to your kids, coming from the most unlikely of organizations. According to videogame industry blog Kotaku, the Corona, Calif.-based right-wing Christian group Ethur has issued a public service announcement of sorts, hoping to increase awareness of the need to protect all points of online access that children use to go online and browse the Web.

In particular, the organization is calling specific attention to the Nintendo (Pink Sheets: NTDOY) Wii, advising parents across the nation of the popular motion-controlled videogame console's Web browser software and advising them to limit their kids' access to inappropriate websites using the console's built-in parental controls. Ethur member and owner of the online pornography awareness website ThePornTalk.com Mike Foster compares such unprotected access points to his personal concept of a network of what CrunchGear.com describes as "gateways to sex, debauchery, AIDS, and, worst of all, becoming a liberal." He likens this to the invention of the zipper - as well as other things, which he personally refers to as "devilish creations."

Right-Wing Christian Group Ethur Raises Issue with Nintendo's Wii
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I don't believe it is fear-mongering if there is indeed a threat that children will be exposed to inappropriate material. I want to protect my children from that, as should any parent.

Posted on 05/08/2007 at 8:05:00 AM

 
Grow-up! Objectification of women is alive & well in the gaming genre. If only the shoe were on the other foot...ET

Posted on 03/23/2007 at 4:03:00 AM

 
Ah, will the fundamentalist fear mongering ever end!

Posted on 03/01/2007 at 7:03:00 PM

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