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."

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Re:Poor Florida

[Anonymous Coward]

For some reason, I thought we might manage to make it out of this whole can of worms without ridiculous legislation...

Sigh. It's finally happened.

I suspected this day would come, but I never thought it would happen so soon.

I read your post, and it struck me as being subtly... wrong, somehow. I had to go back and re-read it twice before I understood what was catching my eye.

You're the first person I've encountered on /. today who spelled 'ridiculous' correctly. Wait, no, that's not quite a true statement. You're the first person I've encountered online today who spelled it correctly.