Greek Court rejects gaming ban

[Unregistered]

David Johnston wrote..

Of course, there's always that other group of people who were in favour of the gaming ban - the group that feel violent games such as CS make children less sensitive to human life

Yeah but that group are wrong...and gh3y

[David Johnston]

Renegade007 wrote..

Yeah but that group are wrong...and gh3y

I love these adult discussions.

[taffer]

taffer wrote..

Greece is a democracy, and if the people want the law overturned, then it will be - they brought down a military dictatorship to win their freedom ffs.

Told ya so. Democracy works.

[jumbo shrimp]

the judge must be CS fan!

[mouth]

jumbo shrimp wrote..

the judge must be CS fan!

Or someone with common sense. One of the two.

[ShoNuff]

Hooray, i go on my hols. to greece next week.

i wont be playing any computer games i doubt,

but i'll feel *Safer*.

[Darklord]

David Johnston wrote..

Of course, there's always that other group of people who were in favour of the gaming ban - the group that feel violent games such as CS make children less sensitive to human life, in addition to those who are strongly against gambling and felt this move was a large step forward... they'll now be sorely disappointed, but I doubt they'll try to have the overturn overturned.

perhaps we won't see the effects of having young people play violent/realistic/addictive/immersive games for a good deal of years yet... but if they all grow up to be ultraviolent psychomaniacs, or people lacking social skills IRL, or autistic-like weirdos, we'll know that greece was right...



I hope not. :)



but the issue regarding what actually happens to Man when confronted with this new and powerful device, the Computer, great Alterer-of-Ways, is interesting... we probably cannot see the consequences clearly yet.

[SinaC]

CrazyNewbieGuy wrote..

UT 2003 demos for all

Huh?

[Unknown1]

yea thats better fuckas trying to ban gaming rude ass hole goverments

[sniv]

JdeFalconr wrote..

now what are they going to do about the gambling problems?

Do a law that sez gambling is illegal? Works better than to say "Oh let's stop gambling and let's stop gaming at the same time so like this everyone's fucked except me cuz I dont play games other than hopscotch"

Surely some will continue, but... That's what laws are. Illegal pirated software is illegal I remind you. Hence the illegal in illegal pirated software (for the smartest of you)

[artemis]

asspennies wrote..

Actually, artemis, if you looked further into the law, gaming was banned not only in public, but also in private. There were several exposes on this that looked at the entirety of the law.

I have been able to buy games througout this period. The law was meant to stop illegal gambling. If they really wanted to stop private gaming, they would have also banned the sale of video games, as it would have been a pointless market, seeing as video games were illegal. I suppose this is another case of the intent of the framers v.s. the interpretation of the law. This law had no tangible effect on the private gamer.

[Brutus]

taffer wrote..

Told ya so. Democracy works.

They are not a Democracy and Democracy had nothing to do with this. They didn't vote on it or anything.

[pants]

Does that mean the kids in greece can't 'bet' that their friends wont do stupid crazy shit anymore?



ibelievethechildrenareourfuturepants

[Exo]

judicial review you fucking idiots.



I'm not entirely sure.. but Greece has the same goverment build-up (same kind) as we do, right? mouth or somebody would know..

[-n0x [nazi-killer]]

this is ridiculous. i cant believe they even tried to ban gaming, even in public places.



im so glad i was born in America.