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Jack Thompson Tasked With Writing Law
Gamespot's Rumor Control column this week handles the usual spurious talk that swirls around the game news sites. One (sadly) factual rumour they report on details gamer-hunting lawyer Jack Thompson's new role as a lawmaker. From the article: "Repeatedly, Thompson has called for states to pass laws criminalizing the sale of M-for-Mature rated games to minors. Now it appears he may get the chance to pen such a law himself. In an e-mail sent out Thursday, Thompson says he has 'been asked by the Office of the Governor of the State of Florida, Jeb Bush, to draft and submit to him and to Florida legislators a bill that will prohibit the sale of violent and sexually explicit video games to minors.' ... When queried by GameSpot for more details, he would only say that he is the only person thus far who has been asked to submit a bill to the governor's office about M-rated game sales. He did not offer details about what kind of penalties the bill would prescribe for offenders or whether or not said penalties would be imposed solely on the clerks selling the games or also on the establishment selling the game and/or the game's publisher."
Well, at least it can ONLY affect florida. -sigh- guess i won't be buying games in florida on vacation anymore.
I guess I won't be going on vacation in Florida anymore. It's apparently ok in Florida to shoot people for any reason you like, but it's gonna be jail time if you sell the wrong video games?
Not to sound prejudiced against 1/50 of my fellow countrymen or anything, but this is not a state that should exist on this Earth. Can we at least dig a moat or something to symbolically separate ourselves from these people?