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Article #909Re: Games determined to offend (was: German ban on Wolf3D)
From: mph... Michael Hall
Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 20:59
Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 20:59
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In article <1992May26....@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> jw...@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale) writes: >I don't think that a game called "Friendly Fire" would face a nationwide >ban in the US, and I don't think it should. The German reaction to >Wolfenstein 3D strikes me as terribly petty. If they will not even allow >video games a little freedom of expression, what will they do to >meaningful forms of expression like books and periodicals? Of course, the flip side of the issue is that we have a perfectly elaborate set of filters here in the U.S. to see to it that such a thing never gets out, and that if it does, owning a copy will be equated with treason in the minds of Joe Average. Sorta like the fact that _The Last Temptation of Christ_ was never banned by the feds, but I still had to go to a neighboring state to see it since every theater in the state refused to carry it for fear of reprisals. -Mike
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!mph...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu From: mph...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Hall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Subject: Re: Games determined to offend (was: German ban on Wolf3D) Summary: yeah, we don't BAN anything. Message-ID: <1992May26.155953.4222@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 26 May 92 20:59:46 GMT Article-I.D.: bronze.1992May26.155953.4222 References: <JKH.92May25193214@meepmeep.pcs.com> <1992May20.225229.13916@panix.com> <1992May26.185251.3044@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: mph...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Lines: 16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit