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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!

  2. 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.

  3. 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!)