Newswire Misreports Gamer's Suicide

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 19, 2006 @06:24AM from the sad-but-not-surprising dept.

Asriel86 writes "Pulling from the AFP newswire, Yahoo, CNN, and others have been reporting about how a gamer broadcast his own suicide on a gaming forum via a webcam, and that members of the forum continued to ridicule the gamer while he killed himself. Gaming Horizon has just learned that this is completely untrue. The newswire reporter failed to check the facts, and in turn painted this simple gaming forum into cruel monsters. The forum (hosted at metalgearsolid.org) has been taken offline at the request of Government agencies following these news reports."

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What? by voice_of_all_reason · 2006-01-19 06:29 · Score: 4, Funny

The forum (hosted at metalgearsolid.org) has been taken offline at the request of Government agencies following these news reports."

"Government agencies" can take down websites without even determining if a crime has taken place? Land of the free, hmm? I can see where this is going...

"Hay guys, it's Bill again. I think that apple.com is actually a secret code for terrorists. You should close it for a few years until your investigation is done."