And we thought censorship was bad in the US..
PostPosted:Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:21 pm
by Zeus
Germany is WAAAY ahead of (behind) anything the US is cookin'
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6163059.html
Jail time for playin' violent games? Only a true madman would propose such a thing. And what does that say about those who seriously consider what a madman is spewing?
History repeating itself, folks
PostPosted:Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:29 pm
by Julius Seeker
What the story didn't mention was that the German Kid who shot up everything was not playing a game with extreme violence, but Super Mario brothers =P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXaUS7pZAg0
PostPosted:Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:46 am
by SineSwiper
Why does GameSpot always pick up these stories about the latest insane senator trying to write a doomed-for-failure bill about violent videogames? And then Zeus always seems to take the bait.
Laws goes through several filters before it even gets voted on. Wake me up when somebody actually votes on this. Even if it does, it's Germany, and as the article points out, they are freedom nazis. Fuck Germany, and fuck their stance on freedom of speech.
PostPosted:Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:59 pm
by Zeus
SineSwiper wrote:Why does GameSpot always pick up these stories about the latest insane senator trying to write a doomed-for-failure bill about violent videogames? And then Zeus always seems to take the bait.
They're always using 20-year old Swedish supermodel nymphos for bait, that's why :-)
This is Germany, not here. They've had a long history of censorship (do a seach on what they did to Turok for the N64) and I thought it would be a good supplemental story to all the censorship stuff we hear about here.