{"id":49985,"date":"2013-01-30T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49985"},"modified":"2014-04-01T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:34:06","slug":"senator-apologises-to-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49985-senator-apologises-to-gamers","title":{"rendered":"Senator apologises to gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Leland Yee has apologised to gamers everywhere, after he claimed that <a title=\"Violent video games debate rages on\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49952-violent-video-games-debate-rages-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">gamers have no credibility in the violent video game discussion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gamers have got to just quiet down,&#8221; said Yee in a previous interview. &#8220;Gamers have no credibility in this argument. This is all about their lust for violence and the industry&#8217;s lust for money. This is a billion-dollar industry. This is about their self-interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yee took to Twitter in an apologetic manner and shifted the concern towards the video game industry itself, and not the gamers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Leland-Lee-tweet-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49988 aligncenter\" title=\"Leland Lee tweet 1\" alt=\"Leland Lee tweet 1\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Leland-Lee-tweet-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yee also went on to say that he respected gamers, but feels that the industry is at fault for profiting off children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Leland-Lee-tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49989 aligncenter\" title=\"Leland Lee tweet\" alt=\"Leland Lee tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Leland-Lee-tweet.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More news on video game violence:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49952-violent-video-games-debate-rages-on.html\">Violent video games debate rages on<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49695-game-developers-are-electronic-child-molesters.html\">Video games are \u201celectronic child molesters\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49402-dishonored-dev-talks-violence-in-video-games.html\">Dishonored dev talks violence in video games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49331-dangers-of-gaming-addiction.html\">Dangers of gaming addiction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48829-us-town-destroying-video-games.html\">US town destroying video games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yee takes back his words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,8561,103,1886,6722,8560,8558,8559],"class_list":["post-49985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bill-for-gaming","tag-research","tag-study","tag-violence","tag-violence-in-gaming","tag-violent","tag-violent-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}