I’ve complained before that I don’t care much for the way our society seems to want to blame manufacturers for what their customers do. That was the reason I recently complained about the Supreme Court decision on peer to peer software.

Now, Hillary Clinton wants to go one step further: she’s trying to blame a software developer for what hackers do to their software. In addition, she wants to pass legislation to impose a $5,000 penalty on retailers who sell “adult rated” games to children.

Neither Rockstar Games nor the game retailer sold anything explicit to these people — they downloaded a mod to make the game explicit. At the very worst, that should fall under the same laws that would limit whether someone could draw an explicit cartoon and make it available for public download. Without looking at the GTA:SA EULA and the mod in question, I can’t say for certain that it violates the EULA, but I imagine the Rockstar Games representative who says that the mod is a violation probably knows what he’s talking about. That would be the only illegal thing done here, in my opinion.

Parents, not government, are responsible for raising their children. The video game industry has provided a rating system to help parents make decisions as a courtesy (though, admittedly, not out of the goodness of their hearts — they were trying to avoid government regulations), and even if they didn’t, information on what’s in a game is very easy to come by if one puts any effort into it at all.

If Hillary wants to hold someone responsible for letting kids get hold of things that are inappropriate for their ages, why doesn’t she try fining the parents? Oh, wait, that’s right. As far as Hillary’s concerned, it’s not the job of a family to raise children, it’s the job of the “village.”

Why anyone would vote for this woman, I’m at a complete loss.