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Jack Thompson Faces Disciplinary Hearing

Posted by Zonk on from the disbarment-we-can-only-hope dept.

CoolC writes "Gamepolitics is reporting that attorney Jack Thompson is to face a disciplinary hearing before the Florida Supreme Court. The attorney faces five counts of professional misconduct, three of which are correlated with his ongoing campaign against violent video games. Thompson faces the possibility of disciplinary action up to and including disbarment."

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  1. Finally justice. by Trendy.Ideology · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At least actions like these will (hopefully) help to dissuade people from just blindly attacking and blaming videogames for everything that goes wrong in thier lives... Holding this person accountable for his gross misconduct is the first step towards really making progress against all these anti-videogame warmongering dimwits. It's about time someone put thier foot down and said "No." to all these figureheads shooting thier mouth off without knowing what the hell they're talking about.

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  2. Re:Meh... by aussie_a · · Score: 4, Interesting

    or the people who want everything totally free and unregulated, no matter the consequences, I have not seen anyone on this article put forth this opinion. The "problem" is, no-one has proven there are any consequences so people wanting everything totally free and unregulated no matter the consequences look exactly the same as those who want everything free barring no bad consequences.
  3. Re: I'm hoping... by Sj0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What are you talking about? He pressed a button. There's nothing violent about pressing a button.

    NOW, sending tens of thousands of troops to a foreign country in a war of aggression and occupation and subjugation which results in 40,000 civilian casualties. THAT is violent.

    But I guess context is a silly thing. We don't need that.

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  4. Re:i'm hoping... by NormalVisual · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He won't get disbarred unfortunately

    The difference is that he's before the FL Supreme Court now, the same people that just two months ago fired a renegade district judge for egregious behavior when no one else would. They don't seem to tolerate such misbehavior very much, especially when presented with a record like Thompson's. Here's hoping he's forced to find an alternate career. :-D

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