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To: Hardraade; All

So what is your solution?? You think some of these games should be banned???


9 posted on 12/18/2012 5:50:35 AM PST by KevinDavis (And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.)
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To: KevinDavis

Of course not.

But you might want not to turn a blind eye to muslim copyright thievery for nefarious purposes.


15 posted on 12/18/2012 5:57:18 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: KevinDavis
So what is your solution?? You think some of these games should be banned???

It really is it's moot point anyway, the Supreme Court ruled in 2011 in "Brown Vs. Entertainment Merchants Association" that Video Games (violent or otherwise) were protected by the first amendment the same as books, art or any other media and therefore could not be regulated by either the state or the federal government. (the case involved California trying to ban the sale of certain violent video games).

17 posted on 12/18/2012 5:59:23 AM PST by apillar
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To: KevinDavis

>>So what is your solution?? You think some of these games should be banned???<<

Parental involvement might be novel.


25 posted on 12/18/2012 6:13:43 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Here comes bama claus here comes bama claus left down bama claus lane!)
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To: KevinDavis
You think some of these games should be banned???

It's a stupid waste of time to debate something that is impossible.

Leaving aside the 1st Amendment issues, you can no more ban violent video games than you can ban porn. You're trying to ban electrons.

Gaming has moved from PCs to console gaming, and it would be possible to ban "violent" console games (lots of fun drawing the line, though - is a fighter flight sim OK, but a first person shooter not?).

However gaming would just move back to PCs. There are lots of first-person shooter PC games and lots of people out there skilled at "modding" (creating your own game/levels based on a given set of software.)

You'll just have people in Belarus cranking out first person shooters and selling/giving away them on the internet, with no conceivable way of stopping it.

And those games will probably end up more violent in terms of content than the console games today.

38 posted on 12/18/2012 7:25:54 AM PST by Strategerist
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