🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992May26....@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> mph...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Hall) writes:
>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

See !

One could continue the list with films and books that SEEM to be porno-
graphic or violating religious feelings, but this goes beyond the subject
of this group. Let's go back to the games...


Greetings, Frank Vogelsang


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