Feature: 'GDC: IGDA: Murder, Sex, and Censorship: Debating the Morals of Creative Freedom'

California Assemblymember Leland Yee has a long political reputation for being extremely responsive to those living in his district. Holding a PhD in child psychology, his legislative efforts are often family-oriented and child-protective. He has passed a bill that mandates medical records be available to patients in their native language, and another which allows foster parents to adminster medical, life-saving injections to their foster children. To game developers, however, he's better known for AB 1179 -- a proposition that many developers view as restricting their medium. Yee spoke on a panel at the 2006 Game Developers Conference: “Murder, Sex and Censorship: Debating the Morals of Creative Freedom.” According to Brenda Brathwaite (game designer, professor, and panel moderator), although a large number of political figures, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, were invited to speak at GDC, Dr. Yee was the only one who agreed to participate in the discussion. Rounding out the panel were prominent linguist and education-and-games proponent Dr. James Paul Gee (University of Wisconsin at Madison) and Jason Della Rocca of the IGDA. You can now read the full Gamasutra feature (no registration required, please feel free to link to this feature from external websites).