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Do you think this guy will be back at it again for GTA: V?

 

For those of you who don't know him, he's an asshole who's been trying to get GTA banned for years.

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PHOENIXZERO

When he got disbarred he lost what little relevancy he had and as per his settlement he can't do anything to try and block the sale of a T2 product.

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The guy lost his soapbox a long time ago. He was struck off the lawyers register & exposed as the self serving prat we always knew him to be. It just took non gamers a little longer to figure it out.

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Yeah he was fighting a losing battle. Since Video Games are legal and a very profitable entertainment medium, there was nothing he could do.

 

But the funny thing is people need to look at movies before they look at Video games. Movies have had alot more controversial and graphic content than video games, not to mention they were here first. My point is if you plan to attack entertainment, you have to attack it at its core, in which case you will always lose because like I said, its very lucrative. And anything that is not immediately illegal and makes lots of money will be here to stay until its necessary to destroy.

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Jack who?

 

But seriously, he's been made powerless long ago. There's no relevance behind that name anymore for reasons that have already been stated.

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He's about as much a threat as Anita is if she were to launch a tirade about "how GTA sees women" or some bullsh*t.

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I wouldn't worry about that old guy. He can't do anything anymore, and he failed miserably the last few times he tried to ban GTA games. sign-thompson.gif

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Oh s*it! his name strikes fear towards the GTA fans!!!! lol

 

I won't be surprised if he comes back- he probably plays Saints Row when nobody's watching.

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he got disbarred

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Supreme Court has ruled (multiple times I am sure) that video games are a form of media equal to books, movies, music, TV, etcetera and is a protected under the first amendment. They don't cause any danger to anyone, unless they are very young children and/or mentally handicapped as is. In which case, they shouldn't be playing the game in the first place. There was even a study that Obama just had done, which proved that violent video games have next to no effect on the emotions/behaviors of those playing them.

 

Video games deserve no more scrutiny than any other entertainment medium. If there is a movie that is dark, scary, and gory as f*ck, people have no problem saying "Don't watch this movie, it's scary." However, you don't see people marching into courtrooms or out in the streets saying "This movie is poisoning our children!! Get it out of theaters NOW!!!"

 

Terrible double standard...

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He's onto other things now, he is done helping build credibility and sales for the GTA franchise by being cast as the role of "Christian lawyer detractor" and running that whole thing in such a way that others would not have a chance if they tried.

 

Jack, thanks for your help. Without you, who knows what crazy people would have come out of the woodwork - having you there as a lawyer, as a friend, was really great, to the GTA series and Rockstar and all of the Fans. Thanks for "leading" the charge "against" GTA bud, it really helped a lot, and definitely was a perfect way to avoid the actual detractors ever gaining ground icon14.gif

 

At least that's ONE thing decent about florida.

 

Of course, if Jack was really serious, and he just really resents free speech, it's just yet another crazy and messed up thing about Florida.

 

 

 

 

And on the most serious note, without GTA, people like Jack would not have a tool to use to appeal to the moral fibers of people. He may portray that he wants GTA eradicated at the time, but come on, he is a Lawyer and he for one will never ever want to lose the first amendment. If he does, then he deserves to die, if his goal of attacking and banning GTA would be the domino effect to ban all kinds of other free speech, then sure, bullet to the head, whatever. But if he is just using it to say even "hey, even if you do play and enjoy the game, please people, use your brains and see that there is a cause for concern with this kind of media, and we should all really appreciate that life shouldn't be that way, and hope that we can keep our lives from being that way". If that's all he was saying, cool. He got to speak, got to get the less-popular message of respecting women and living an upright life out, don't mind that he used GTA to do so, because GTA didn't get hurt in the long run, it did better.

 

So I can appreciate Jack. But I wouldn't want him to nor would I tolerate him jumping at Rockstar again, I'd write a book, all over the internet and crush him.

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