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Rockstar Investigated Over GTA - Vice City
Jubii writes "Seems the State of Florida is about to investigate Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for possibly violating state hate crime laws. This comes right after Rockstar and Take-Two issued an apology and a promise to remove offensive dialog found in the game. This could cause significant changes for 'mature' games in the future." Since Rockstar has already apologized and pledged to update the game, is it just me, or is the state of Florida only looking to line its pockets with some best-selling game profits? Update: 12/12 00:19 GMT by S : Haitian community leaders aren't satisfied either, saying "the manufacturer's pledge to change future editions did not solve the problem with games on store shelves now."
When I played VC, I *never* once thought, "hey, those haitians, they're pretty bloodthursty!" And you wanna know why? Cuz it's a GAME, not a how-to guide or a travel brochure!
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Inciting people to violence against a particular ethnic group would be a hate crime, but "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS!" is a fictional utterance by a fictional character in a dramatic work of fiction. It is clearly protected speech. Florida is smoking crack.
you know what? i wish more people just watched southpark and shutted the hell up. the hate crime episode in this case particular.
it's not just about it being a funny show.. it's the social commentary that makes it great.
anyways, how long has the game been on the shelves? hmm? a freakking long time perhaps hmm? somebody fishing for extra points somewhere hmm? being kyle's mum hmm?
it's largely a parody of stereotypes anyways(the game).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Now that Rockstar has caved and announced that the dialog will be removed, what will it be replaced with? I mean, you can't just dump the player into a situation with no objective, that was the purpose of the phrase in question in the first place. In today's America, there is no proper solution. SOMEONE would find SOMETHING wrong with some little bit of something totally trivial, as they have here. Add in a bit of whining and complaining to some sympathetic politician, and nothing is safe.