Brazil to ban "offensive" games?

Brazilian senator Valdir Raupp has proposed a bill to outlaw all offensive video games in the South American country, reports GamePolitics.

According to Brazilian website UOL, the legislation has been approved by the Education Commission of the Senate, and will now be put to vote at the Committee on Constitution and Justice.

The senator claims that his motives behind the proposal are to "curb the manufacture, distribution, importation, distribution, trading and custody [and] storage [of] the videogames that affect the customs, traditions of the people, their worship, creeds, religions and symbols".

"Therefore, we seek to protect the principle of equality - for many the greatest of constitutional principles - with the characterisation of such discriminatory conduct as a crime by making provision in the law," he said.

Brazil has previously banned Carmageddon, Grand Theft Auto and Postal. Anyone found guilty of violating the law could face between one to three years in prison, should the bill be passed.