Brown links games to knife crime

Gordon Brown has once again aired his concerns over violent video games as he launched a crackdown on knife crime, reports

The Sun

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He told the tabloid: I am very worried about video and computer games. No one wants censorship or an interfering State. But the industry has some responsibility to society and needs to exercise that.”

It’s not the first time Brown has linked games to violent crime – he has already said that "Parents are concerned" about "harmful violence and sexual imagery in games and on the internet,” and that Society must look at video games” and how they affect children.

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