Digg This!One of the last surviving politicians waging a serious attempt at controlling videogame violence, Jack Tompson is easily the biggest threat to creative control of modern art. Of heads exploding.
The giants at screwattack.com hosted a debate between Jack and the lawyer and editor of lawofthegame.com, Mark Methenitis, At their recent and first Screwattack Gaming Convention in Dallas. Click above to watch the edited version for those with short attention spans, and hit the jump if you want to see the full hour, if you feel like being enlightened. Don’t forget to visit Mark’s blog for his thoughts on the matter.
As promised, here’s the full hour’ish of full debate. Interseting stuff, no doubt. Any thoughts?
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Posted in Blog News, Misc-cetera | Tagged With: Jack Tompson • Mark Menthenitis • Screwattack.com • Videogame • Violence
kinda hard not to agree i know your not going to like it but thats why there rated
July 28th, 2009 at 6:02 am
Yeah, it’s true. Jack’s pretty restrained in this one and his debater… eh, not great.
That said, I don’t trust the guy. This is the same person that said violent games are “murder simulators” and they should be banned. Not from kids, not without age checks. Banned. Totally.
Fun Fact: Jack Thompson was the same guy that got 2 Live Crew banned in Florida for the song “Me So Horny”, and that was one of the events that led to the parental advisory label on cd’s. True story.
July 28th, 2009 at 7:27 am
True story I interviewed him on my Senior project in Highschool, didn’t tell him I was taping it, and when he found out he threatened to get me in trouble with the law, such a dickhead
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(I totally owned his punkass too.)
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 am
No way! That’s pretty damn awesome.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:51 am