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Jack Thompson Sets His Sights On Halo 3

Posted by Zonk on from the because-he-has-nothing-better-to-do dept.

GamePolitics is reporting that anti-game advocate Jack Thompson is seeking to have Halo 3 declared a nuisance to the public in Florida. He tried the same stunt with Bully, and failed then too. "As with Bully, Thompson clearly hopes the court will grant him a hearing. Although after last year's well-publicized Bully performance, which earned Thompson a Bar complaint from presiding Judge Ronald Friedman, that seems unlikely. More troubling by far are the long term implications of this action. Thompson apparently feels emboldened to invoke Florida's public nuisance law against any video game he desires to target. That is the essence of censorship and the video game industry cannot allow it to continue on any number of grounds - legal, moral or creative."

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  1. Who cares! by guysmilee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who cares ... he loses every court battle!

    1. Re:Who cares! by drydirt · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Who cares ... he loses every court battle!

      I care. He might win one.

      (We're talking about Florida after all, not exactly a bastion of sanity)

  2. Nuisance by Seumas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is he allowed to keep doing this? He should be punished for his endless series of nuisance lawsuits and then he should be held accountable for damaging reputations and businesses with his slanderous, ridiculous, attention-seeking, self-serving accusations. That he is given endless court and television time is highly offensive.

    1. Re:Nuisance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's pretty sad, but it can require something REALLY bad in order to actually disbar a lawyer
      A single bullet ought to do the trick nicely.

      (Yes, Mr Thompson, chalk up another on your pathetic list of "death threats"! Because every AC on Slashdot is actually a murderer - no, worse than that, a gamer in disguise!)
  3. Crazy! by Zebra_X · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What? Halo 3 is just another FPS. What is so deplorable about Halo? Actually - it might be a good thing to get MSFT's legal department rolling on crushing this retard.

  4. I'm getting tired of this... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He was funny a couple of years ago, but it's like an annoying joke that was funny at first and then starts driving you nuts. I wish he just shut up.

  5. It is important to our cause to give publicity by netsavior · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Jack Thompson is the greatest asset we have in our fight to keep video games from being villified and banned/censored.

    The primary spokesperson of the anti-video game movement is clearly a psychopath. Completly batshit crazy. If he was not crazy, and used logical (sounding) conclusions and appealed to reasonable or religious sensibilities he would be MUCH more dangerous to free speech than he is.

    So we MUST give him lipservice, we must work to keep his illegal, crazy shenanagins in the news, because as long is he is their front-man, we will always win.