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Banning Violent Arcade Games Unconstitutional
zTTTz writes "The US District court ruled that it was not
only unconstitutional to ban
violent video games from public arcades, but also ruled that the city of Indianapolis pay $318,000 in legal fees to the video game industry. This will probably make other cities think twice about trying to censor video game content again." Update 17:45 GMT by J : We covered the Indianapolis story previously in
July 2000,
October 2000, and
March 2001.
Check out
NCAC's open letter,
too. We haven't bothered covering the
recurring
news of
declining real-world violence
(while video games just get more gruesome and explicit), mostly because it's the same story over and over.
Now, how am I going to keep my kids away from this filth? I can't watch them 24/7.
People who are trumpeting this victory as a "win for free speech" need to think twice and consider that there are parents out there who feel otherwise.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Arcades are belong to us!
Datm
Spoken like a true non-parent. Kudos.
If you fall off a building, go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will be like hey, free dummy
The real goal of it all is to promote sociopaths who think nothing of watching other people's heads blown off. This motivates people to work, of course, and more importantly, to work alone, as they will become paranoid that it is only a matter of time before someone snaps and starts to destroy those who are near them.
Sex, on the other hand, promotes people to work together, not against one another. They will become distracted by the "squishy fun bits" of the opposite (or same) sex. Eventually everyone would end up romping about doing nothing but having sex.
As you can see, it's much better to have a paranoid individual dreaming of bloodlust as he fiddles around with some useless task for a boss who is the object of his complete hatred than to have a group of lovy-touchy people who will inevitably end up in a huge work-site wide orgy.
karma is for the weak >)
It gets funnier from there. I've always loved how City bleeps the 'god' out of 'god damn'. Anybody that censors out god is all good by me ;)
do not read this line twice.
We haven't bothered covering the recurring news of declining real-world violence (while video games just get more gruesome and explicit), mostly because it's the same story over and over.
The same story over and over? On Slashdot?
Surely you must be joking.
> I think his game was called "Kill the Jews".
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Kill the Jews! Thats a good one! I'll have to remember it! Damn... where is a pen, I need to write that down. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Kill the Jews.. you crack me up.
> I was at the Jefferson Memorial this summer. It's nice and all, but he deserves so much more.
Yeah... they really should have a big statue of Jefferson with his slave lovers and some of his illigitimate children. That would be beautiful.
Read the hole comment asshole it wasn't a joke.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.