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burrkarin wrote:
> No joke! Since the letest school shootings in Germany, the local
> politicians have found the main scapegoat to deflect fromsocial
> problems of this overaged society: Computer Games. The press even
> createted herefore the neologism "Killerspiele" and started the biggst
> baiting of the last decades (and in Germany this means something!).
> Every day the agitation against games and gamers becomes more and more
> ugly. Now politicians try to cap each other with suggestions which
> become more and more bizarre and are only possible in the German
> neophobic society.
> The latest, and most bizarre till now, is to punish the creation,
> distribution and even the use(!) of the so called "Killerspiele" (FPS)
> with up to one year prison! And this is not the end of the game, since
> German politicians press the EU more and more to match.
> It is unnecessary to mention that this is an extreme cut in the freedom
> of opinion, recreational time and hence human rights. Thousands of
> games would be criminalized. Also the economic consequences should be
> enormous, since computer and software creators could also face trials.
> The situation is despetate.
> Please feel free to distribute this article if you think so.
> At least some links:
> info(at)csu-bayern.de: The ultraconservative party which wants to put
> gamers into prison
> redaktion(at)tagesschau.de: One of the biggest German news portals
> poststelle(at)stmi.bayern.de: The minister with the "prison idea"
>
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