Kotaku: Jack Thompson Disbarred

As much as you’d like to cheer that Thompson finally got his – and that FL finally got rid of a rather unstable and unethical lawyer – please don’t cheer. In fact, gamers should be very, very wary of this development… Thompson no longer has a legal bar to answer to and he doesn’t have to behave like a laywer anymore.

Basically, FL just gave birth to a complete loose cannon that has a rather lengthy record of successfully being in the spotlight for anti-video game movements.

Ph34r.

Wired: ‘Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.’ Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the [sic] harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill.

Jesus Christ, Jack. Why not be a bit more subtle and just dance a jig on the graves of people that were killed just for going to class. You have no heart. No class. And you should be disbarred for wasting people’s time and energy for a self-serving invented witch hunt.

You, sir, are so beneath the human race that I believe you should be disbarred: you shouldn’t be allowed to speak for my species.
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