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I did not even know who this fool was until I read a joke about him on CTRL+ALT+DEL today. I did a little googling to learn that he is a lawyer that has become the biggest threat to gamers' rights. He is opposed to all video game violence and swears that it corrupts our brains. For the past couple years, people have been making jokes about him in our online communities, and not taking him seriously. He went on TV last year it appears to announce that if anyone would make a game that was based on killing the CEO of whatever gaming industry he was trying to ruin, he'd make a $10,000 donation to a charity. Well, some people actually made a mod that did as he asked and then said, so where's that donation now? Jack of course said that his offer was satire and that it did not count. Therefore, the people of pennyarcade made a $10k check out in his name and donated it to somebody, I forget who, but they donated it in Jack Thompson's behalf. He thus filed a formal complaint with a police dept. accusing pennyarcade of harrassment and who knows what else.
All this can be found on the first page of hits for Jack's name.
The reason I bring this forth today is because just in the past day or two it was reported a Louisiana court ruling threw out Jack's proposal to make selling mature-rated videos a serious crime, if I read it correctly. I did not read it thoroughly, so you can go look if you want to make sure. But the cool thing is that they use the words, "permanantly barred" as pertaining to this law proposal, citing it as unconstitutional.
Our community of gamers rejoices!
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