Rockstar Strikes Back

Eurogamer is reporting on a little humor that Rockstar is having at Jack Thompson's expense. From the article: "Rockstar has just launched a new website for forthcoming PSP game GTA: Liberty City Stories, which features a spoof email from 'JT@CitizensUnitedNegatingTechnology'. 'The Internet is an unambiguous evil,' the email reads. 'The only things worse than the Internet are computer games and liberals ... Only last week, I was using the Internet to look up some information for my 15 year old niece, who is a keen water skier and state wide sailor ... Trust me when I say this - searching under the subject matter "Teenage girls water sports" is not for the faint hearted.'" The article goes on to describe some frantic arm waving from the parody's target.

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Hehe....

[ben0207]

CITIZENS
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NEGATING
TECHNOLOGY
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PEOPLE'S
SAFETY

Cuntflaps, for the very slow. R* show us again where their true talent lies!

Re:Hehe....

[PakProtector]

The problem is best summed up by C. S. Lewis:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

To sum it up: People who want to forbid you from doing something for your own good who do it because their own concience tells them to do so will never stop doing it, and will keep stopping you from doing things, not because that thing hurts them, but because it hurts you or someone else.

I tend to live by the idea that no one has any right to tell anyone not to do anything else as long as it's not hurting someone -- and something hurting someone is defined by the person who is supposed to be being hurt.

In other words, I cannot beat the crap out of people in broad daylight on city streets -- unless that person happens to not mind my doing it.

However, if that person doesn't mind it, no one, whether it be a fellow no-one like me, or someone like the Pope or the Dalai Lama, has any right to stop me from doing it , or to stop the person who is enjoying having the crap beaten out of them from enjoying it.

People always want rules, they always want laws -- always for other people. When is the last time you ever say some elected official trying to get something banned, "Because I need it to be banned to make me stop?" Never. First of all, if you know it's wrong, why do you need a law to make you stop doing it? And second of all, if you know it's wrong in the first place, why are you doing it? You must not think it's really that wrong, or you have no self-control. And if you have no self control, why are you in office?

I don't think we're going to get anywhere in this world until we find some way to rid humanity of the busy-body trait that makes others try to stop letting their fellow humans go to hell in their own way. Of course, the problem is, people like me, who feel in this way, are generally too pacifist to take any drastic action to stop it.

However, even though I am a pacifist, I am still rational, and I never let my pacifism get in the way of what I feel needs must be done.

To these people who want to take away our rights to listen to and read and watch what we will, I say this: If it offends you, don't watch it. Turn off the TV, or the Radio, or skip that story in the Magazine. But don't you dare stop me from being able to turn of the TV to that Program, or the Radio to that Song, or to that Page in the Magazine or Newspaper. Restricting the Rights of the People 'a little bit' falls into the same classic silliness as 'a little bit pregnant.' You are either pregnant or not. You are either taking my Rights away or not. There is a reason they are called Rights, and not Privellages.

I would, to paraphrase the words of Thomas Jefferson, suffer from having too much Freedom than too Little. To badly quote Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither." Has no one ever noticed that the Product of Freedom and Security is a constant? To have freedom, you must give up your security!

The freedom to drive an automobile is the freedom to be involved in a 37 car pile-up on the interstate. The freedom to have hardware stores is the freedom to possibly be killed with a hammer by an assailant, or to nail your hand to a board with a nailgun.

Are so many of my countrymen in these, the failing days of our once great Republic, become so stupid? Are the words of our Founding Fathers no longer required learning, even for those who would run this, the country they designed?

Very soon in this country, one of two things will happen. Either we will become the Evangelical Christian States of A

Re:Hehe....

[CFTM]

Although I agree with the general sentiment of your statement, I think you're coping out by saying that you're a pacifist. If this is important to you, do something about it. You needn't be violent to be a part of the solution and that implication is short-sighted on your part; had you said I'm lazy that would be fine.

That being said, the Evangelical Christians are a real threat to this country; I would argue it is every bit as dangerous as Islamic Fundamentalists although some may call that statement flamebait. The fuckers are setting up schools to teach young politicians how to use the bible to make lawmaker-type decisions. If that isn't the most absurd, dangerous and stupidest thing I've ever heard than I'll run around naked for a week. And yes, I think I'm employing the user of hyperbole here ;)

I believe...

[overpayd]

That's a fake email address.

But I'm not sure about this: "Jack Thompson can assure the world that the only thing to which he is "addicted" is eating entertainment industry scofflaws for breakfast - and golf."

Is that a real quote?! First of all, why is Jack Thompson referring to himself in the third person? And secondly, what the hell is he talking about anyway?

Jack Thompson

[Digital_Quartz]

I find it interesting that Jack Thompson refers to himself exclusively in the third person everywhere he is quoted...

Please tell me this is fake...

[thebdj]

http://www.stopkill.com/
I hope the upper 90% of it was parodied by someone and the bottom like 10% with addresses and all is real. Or hell that the whole is real just proving the man has no sense of how to prevent being harassed by gamers, liberals, e-mail scanning bots (which subsequently leads to porn, home loans and medications), and who knows maybe just the total nut job who would go as far as stalking him.
One can only dream...I now have motivation for getting my law degree, to laugh my ass off across the court room when the judge tells him to go read the damn constitution...*snaps up from dreaming*...oh sorry...

Okay, Okay

[radicalskeptic]

Well, someone had to do it.

The first GIS response for "teenage girls water sports"...

Not exactly what I was expecting o_O

radio pornographers?

[kaptron]

...the oldest dodge used by the porn industry, first used on Jack Thompson by radio pornographers whom Thompson got fined by the FCC in 1989.

Even without numbers I can assure you that the multi-billion dollar porn industry is not making its money off of radio porn.

Liberals?

[Seumas]

The only things worse than the Internet are computer games and liberals ...

Yeah, because liberals are completely rational about the effects of entertainment media.

(Not a liberal or conservative - just sayin').

Re:Liberals?

[FidelCatsro]

The US political definition of liberal is " mild authoritarian ". Half the insults directed at liberals are against these people who are no more liberal than your average authoritarian conservative .
I think Rockstar are using liberal in the classical sense of the word

Re:Liberals?

[FidelCatsro]

The Democrats are a conservative party , just slightly less so than the Republicans .

Teenage girl watersports

[Seumas]

Only last week, I was using the Internet to look up some information for my 15 year old niece, who is a keen water skier and state wide sailor ... Trust me when I say this - searching under the subject matter "Teenage girls water sports" is not for the faint hearted.'"

I know it's a parody, but I'm tired of hearing idiots talk about "when you search for stuff on the internet, all you get back is pornography!". That's complete bullshit.

Go into "preferences" on google and select "safe search". Now, search for teenage girls water sports .

I only looked at the first 15 pages worth of results, but NONE are inappropriate or pornographic or sexual whatsoever. Even with "safe search" turned off, six of the first ten results are about the intended, non sexual, subject.

Heh...

[Dehumanizer]

... reminds me of the "Conservatives Against Nearly Everything", in Leisure Suit Larry 5.

Uh Oh

[idonthack]

They're doing this? To the guy who was going to take legal action on the author of VGCats because he sent the guy an email?
 
Can you say "lawsuit"?
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turn of the evil internet

[El_Muerte_TDS]

I wonder how many times Jack Thompson visited this site.

The full email text

[88NoSoup4U88]

Since the full email text is all embedded within the flashfile, finally an occasion to karma-whore with a reasonable reason ;)

Dear Liberty Tree,

The internet is unambiguous evil. The only things worse than the internet are computer games and liberals. The fact of the matter is our Constitution clearly protects us against the internet. They had foresight, to go along with their wooden teeth, and the Constitution clearly alludes to "unwanted connectivity".

We want to turn the internet off before this parasite swallows all of us. The fact is, this may be an e-mail, but I am revolted with myself, and will punish myself, vigorously. We need to be free from the internet. It's getting mankind in a hideous and vice-like grip and before you know it, our lives, which were once perfect, will be reduced to nothing but cyber sex and learning things we have no business knowing, like the fact the government lies, or you can safely go on vacation outside the old 48 contiguous. It's revolting, and we're all suffering.

Only last week, I was using the internet to look up some information for my 15 year old niece, who is a keen water skier and state wide sailor. Trust me when I say this - searching under the subject matter "Teenage girls water sports" is not for the faint hearted. The fact is people who care about our society really should join our society. CLICK WWW.CITIZENSUNITEDNEGATINGTECHNOLOGY.ORG FOR MORE DETAILS.

The site is real.

[chanda3199]

I'm kind of surprised that I didn't see someone post a link to the site from the email address.

You're Listening to KXXX FM...

[Thedalek]

Even without numbers I can assure you that the multi-billion dollar porn industry is not making its money off of radio porn.

Without hesitation, I'll go ahead and hazard a guess that Madman Jack is talking about Howard Stern. No, I know what you're thinking, Howard Stern isn't porn. You don't get it. To Jack, anything exceeding his personal obscenity barometer is pornographic filth, including but not limited to swimsuit and underwear ads, soap and shampoo commercials, commercials for "femenine hygene" products (probably also wicked tools of the Evil Femenist Regime (TM)), and pretty much anything that in any way expresses that there is some physiological difference between boys and girls.

It's an old tactic used by those who wish to manipulate the public by slapping spurious labels on what they don't like. Saying "We want filth and pornography off our airwaves," is likely to get more support than "Thinking about sex is wrong and evil."

Really, the question shouldn't be "What are Jack Thompson's views on the matter?" (Which no one really asked, but Jack supplied anyway), but "What are Jack Thompson's wife's views? Is his zealotry detracting from their marriage?