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Offline Kamikaze

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Jack Thompson gets violent games legislation in
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=9745

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The measure proposed by HB 1381, which was drafted with the help of controversial Florida attorney and anti-game activist Jack Thompson, allows a judge to rule on whether or not a video game meets established criteria for being inappropriate for minors and be subsequently pulled from store shelves. A person found guilty of selling such a game to a minor would face fines ranging from $100 to $2,000, plus a prison term of up to one year.

Prison term for selling a minor a violent game? That's goddamn insane.
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But he might have fun. And we can't have that, now can we? I give it 2 weeks before it's found unconstitutional by courts.
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Living in Canada has never been so sweet.

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Offline Kernal

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If It to violent don`t buy it. It is as simple as that.
If this guy tries to get a federal ban..........


I`ll stab him in the face. ;7
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Offline Turambar

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oy, this guy's annoying.
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Offline Flipside

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The ESA announcement of another law-suit on the grounds of breach of the First and Fourteenth Amendments has also been made.
« Last Edit: June 16, 2006, 07:23:01 pm by Flipside »

 

Offline Polpolion

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Wth? Wasn't the fourteenth amendment the one that banned slavery?

 

Offline Flipside

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Sort of, yes, it's the one about non-descrimination regardless of race, colour or preference, basically, by singling out Video Games, it's being taken as descrimination, because video ratings will still be voluntary. It's a sort of fall-back option :)

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Jack Thompson gets violent games legislation in
I think it's more along the lines of not subjecting movies or any other form of media to this standard.
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Offline Turnsky

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*is glad to be australian*

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Offline IceFire

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You folks are so screwed down there...I mean we're all screwed but you guys are more.  Lawyers run that country...make no mistake about it.
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Offline Mefustae

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Nah. Money runs this country. Statistically speaking, we spend more time talking about the economy than any other country on the planet.

But anyway, things that you lads up north take for granted, like video-games among others [like good Sci-Fi telly], are all but ignored. Honestly, when I see a game ad on TV, I sit up and take notice, as it's quite a rare sight [at least in NSW, anyway].

 

Offline Turnsky

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Nah. Money runs this country. Statistically speaking, we spend more time talking about the economy than any other country on the planet.

But anyway, things that you lads up north take for granted, like video-games among others [like good Sci-Fi telly], are all but ignored. Honestly, when I see a game ad on TV, I sit up and take notice, as it's quite a rare sight [at least in NSW, anyway].

dude, science fiction TV is a statistic impossibility in tasmania, and yeah, in general, unless it's a world debut, games run quite a few months behind the US in terms of release dates.

while i'll agree with the whole "don't give minors games that aren't in their age rating" thing, the target, however, is the incorrect one, as more often than not, it's the adult PARENT that is buying the game for their kid to just shut them up, it'll be contested, to be sure.
the jail term is just a little overkill in anybody's books, and just utterly stupid, i'd LIKE to see a judge pass that through court.
that said, our video games are rated not unlike actual movies and such, and that's a fair asessment on things, is it not?. (australia has some really tightass censors, too)
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Ugh, this is just like the ACLU (is that them, or did i get it wrong?) trying to ban the cross, or that guy trying to remove "under god" from the Pledge of Allegiance. ****ers.
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Offline redsniper

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Not really, but that's a whole 'nother debate.
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Offline karajorma

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Ugh, this is just like the ACLU (is that them, or did i get it wrong?) trying to ban the cross, or that guy trying to remove "under god" from the Pledge of Allegiance. ****ers.

Nope. It's completely different. In fact the ALCU are making that case based on the constitution which is the same document that will be used against this idiotic law.
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Offline aldo_14

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Technically, wasn't that 'under God' thing a holdover from the days of 'Godless Communists' anyways?

 

Offline Mars

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The ACLU tried to ban the cross?!?  :nervous: I don't remember this, wouldn't that be against the constitution in a big way?

 

Offline aldo_14

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The ACLU tried to ban the cross?!?  :nervous: I don't remember this, wouldn't that be against the constitution in a big way?

Surely that depends what cross it is and where it goes?

 

Offline Mars

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Ah, okay, that's different, doesn't bug me too much, but ah well
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In 2004, for example, the ACLU of Southern California (ACLU/SC) threatened to sue the city of Redlands, California if it did not remove a picture of a cross from the city's seal.