Get caught up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)
A new chapter of the JT show is emerging: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=2069&Itemid=2
Its only a matter of time before he sues...
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Get caught up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)
A new chapter of the JT show is emerging: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=2069&Itemid=2
Its only a matter of time before he sues...
To give some life to this thread, here's some interesting news I found out about at another forum:
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/news.php?i=969
Jack Thompson then actually sent a letter to administrators at MetalGearSolid.org regarding the situation.Quote:
"Earlier this month, gamer named Mitchell S. with the online screenname "Kuja105" who posts on a few online videogame forums (including GameFaqs.com and MetalGearSolid.org) committed suicide. On January 2 he posted a message in both forums detailing his intent to end his own life, citing overwhelming complications with school and finances.
A very brief period of initial disbelief was followed by a barrage of replies from fellow forum members pleading that he not take his life, trying to talk him out of it.
For days, no word was heard from Mitchell. Fearing the worst, members and administration from metalgearsolid.org began searching for contact information, spending hours on the phone trying to get in touch with him. Finally on January 4, Ryan K., an administrator at metalgearsolid.org, got him on the phone and spent hours desperately trying to talk him out of it.
Sadly, Mitchell soon ended his own life by consuming antifreeze and painkillers.
Later, members from the site contacted Mitchell's family to find out the grave news. They reported it to their online community, and posted a tribute to their passed friend on the front page of metalgearsolid.org." Full Report Here.
This man needs his tongue cut out and his fingers broken.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fucking Douchebag
Seriously, he might try to sue you for this comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrialSword
I am trying to find who to email complaints to the Florida Bar association site, but there are TONS of email addresses listed. What a beurocracy.
This is a tactic I dont really understand. I think they should be sending him apples full of razors or voodoo dolls or something:
http://flowersforjack.livejournal.com/Quote:
Many of us hate Jack Thompson. Jack Thompson hates all of us. Let's send pretty, pretty flowers to him.
There are politicians everywhere who are trying to categorize violent games as porn. That would make Mortal Kombat pornography, while all Slasher Films are just "inappropriate" for kids. WTF.
I didn't like him before, but using somebodies death, is just pretty low.
Videogames didn't kill that kid, depression and bad decisions did.
Yes, but you can't sue depression...
That's what I'm saying.
I don't like the way he was using what we consider a hobby and activity to fuel his own personal agenda.
I hope Hillary, Lieberman, McCain (?) and the rest distance themselves far from nutjobs like JT. The gaming demographic is well-old enough to vote. Politicians need to recognize that the precentage of the voting polulation that plays games is ever growing, and siding with Thompson WILL COST THEM VOTES.
Confirmed.
I have a theory that Jack is actually a hardcore gamer. His childish theatrics decrease credibility in the anti-videogame movement more efficiently than any of his opponents.
It won't really effect the outcome of an election all that much.Quote:
I hope Hillary, Lieberman, McCain (?) and the rest distance themselves far from nutjobs like JT. The gaming demographic is well-old enough to vote. Politicians need to recognize that the precentage of the voting polulation that plays games is ever growing, and siding with Thompson WILL COST THEM VOTES.
If criticizing videogames will cost people votes, why has Hillary and McCain (?) taken up the cause? As recently as 2 or 3 years ago only Lieberman was on the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
Because criticizing videogames gains votes.
Look, 90% of people dont give a shit. The 10% that does is the radical religious nutjobs. But nearly 100% of those 10% vote (compared to 35-55% of the other 90%). Criticize some videogames and pick up some easy votes, because the 90% will ignore everything you have to say one way or the other.
What about the internet gaming community though?Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Dunno, I sorta like tough guys cracking down on immorality. I would never let my kids play alot of the videogames out today. I haven't followed the story of Jack T. though, just skimmed the wiki.
edit: anyone who cracks down on Killer7 is my friend btw.
I am willing to guess that roughly 0% of them vote.Quote:
Originally Posted by flux=rad
-Dippy
Same thing happened with comic books back in the early twentieth century. They got the Comic Code, but after a while, the government found better things to do with our tax dollars, like bathing themselves in it. Eventually the Comic Code got ignored, then pretty much abolished.
It saddens me to no end that
1) Jack would use Christ to move his own political agenda (yeah, I know, "it happens every day", blah blah blah), and
2) our government is that fucking low that instead of tackling things like, oh I dunno, terrorism, social security, inflation, the economy, North Korea, and <name some slightly more important social issue here>, they decide to do this to get votes.
Jack Thompson can really eat it. So can Hillary and whoever else. Go back to using our money to wipe you ass with, Congress, and quit beating a dead fucking horse.
IBTNQuote:
Originally Posted by Compass
Hey, somebody open that other thread back up that's NOT A JACK THOMPSON THREAD. Reading is fundamental.
No kidding. It wasn't a Jack Thompson thread, said so clearly in the little text below the main thread title, and people weren't actually talking about Jack Thompson in it. What the hell was that all about?
Oh yeah, and it was generating some interesting conversation too.
James
Yes, which I was going to comment in but then noticed the thread was closed. Way to mod.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
Talk about it in this thread, for fuck's sake.
So, shall we call it the "Jack Thompson & Friends" thread?
Call it whatever you want. No need to spread your scintillating discussion of politics and videogames over eight bajillion different threads.
It's official.
I do NOT recognize this blathering idiot as a Brother in Christ and no Christian with a brain should either.
For fuck's sake, how much of a scumbag do you have to be to invoke the name the Lord Christ to further your shitty politcal agenda while talking about someone's death?
This fool knows nothing about anything and continues to paint himself as a raving loon.
Thompson is actually speaking out in favor of Howard Stern in the whole CBS lawsuit thing.
http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=180703
As opposed to invoking his name to diss someone on a video game forum?Quote:
Originally Posted by Master of 7s
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
Hahaha, that's awesome.Quote:
Thompson also summed the situation up this way: "Put another way, a pimp is more culpable than his prostitute. CBS pimped Howard Stern for two decades for all he was worth to them, and now they’re shocked to find he is a prostitute who has sold his wares to the highest bidder? Please."
I really did think that was the highlight of the article.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frito
Will you shut up already?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Now he's going after Wikipedia and soon Gamepolitics:
For Monday the 13th.
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/228672.html
:lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
From: Jack Thompson [mailto:xxxxxxxxx@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 1:25 PM
To: dennis@gamepolitics.com; Aaron McKenna; Curt Feldman; Tor Thorsen; Brendan Sinclair; mattsaunderson
Subject: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You're next, Mr. McCauley
UNBELIEVEABLE! The fucking Wikipedia admins caved in to Thompson and had the entire article edited. Wikipedia is worthless.
More Jack Thompson douchebaggery: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/711/711309p1.html
Quote:
After two teenagers in Florida were arrested on suspicion of murder, Thompson suggested to the authorities that they search their homes for gaming paraphernalia. Deputies seized several games rated "M" from one of the homes, but West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Capt. Spence Dilworth was a bit skeptical as to whether the games provoked the boys to commit murder.
"I think it goes beyond video games, but who's to say?" Dilworth said of the crime. He went on to say that the question of whether games cause violent behavior is "more of a debate for the living room rather than the courtroom."
But Jack Thompson doesn't need to have that debate anywhere. Of the suspects, who reportedly beat their victim to death and shot him in the face, Thompson said: "Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hit man or a video gamer."
Nobody shoots anybody period unless they're seriously messed up, and videogames don't have the power to make them that way.
CAD has done some of the best stuff for jack thompsan. but i love the penny arcade thing too.
Nobody shoots Hadou-kens from their hands unless they're a gamer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Article at IGN
Yeah, whatever Jack. :bang:
What video game provoked Cain to kill Abel? BTW, Jack's calling Sony's proliferation of video games a "Pearl Harbor 2" is just offensive.
Jack Thompson, for all his blatant mental "issues" is still taken seriously by politicians. Its too bad the gaming industry or some gamer group (VGVN perhaps?) doesn't go after him...
Jack Thompson is a troll. He simply needs to be banned. From breathing.
Adam Sessler wants to reach out into his monitor and strangle Thompson. Video included.
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/10/g4...at-each-other/
That debate was pretty low-rent on both sides. It's obvious that Thompson is a baffoon but they're not really doing much to represent gamers by acting like a horse's ass to him. Where's that MIT professor when you need him?
This interview was quite hilarious near the end. IMO, there should have been a couple of parents involved in this debate as well- one who would side with Jack, and one who would side with Adam.
Fuck that. This should've never happened to begin with. If G4 is too stupid to properly review or cover something as simple as video games, how in the hell are they going to be smart enough to "represent us" in a "debate" on politics and responsibility with Jack Thompson? It's like a freaking fanboy internet fight.
Your mother is like a freaking fanboy...internet..fight..
Bitch.
pwnt
I really need to pick this up one of these days.
Who else is doing it? Everyone says we need someone to represent us. Finally someone gets the balls and they get trash talk from the VG industry.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
1up,Gamespot,etc etc. would rather attack Thompsons on their blogs or whatever, but rarely (if ever) have they went one on one with Thompson like G4 did. Why hasn't Thompson made an appearance on the 1up show?
Bravo G4. I hate your programming, but atleast someone's doing something.
I've learned I like Adam a lot more when he's not on X Play.
I agree with g0zen though, showing was weak on both sides.
True. Acting like its a debate on NeoGAF does nothing to help "the cause". Treating him with undeserved respect and debating him on facts is the only way to win.Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
As much as I love gaming, I have to admit that the gamer "community" really needs to start acting its age. Just take a look at GamePolitics commentaries: its full of misspellings, misuse of grammer, Furries, and general F-Chan loonyness.
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/342126.html#cutid1
Now he's demanding to "review" Bully.
Faggots like this are too afraid/stupid to do anything actually important or useful for humanity, so they go after shit like videogames/music/movies. Fucking Commies.
LOL @ demanding to prescreen Bully. I think he really fucking loves videogames and all this bullshit he speaks is really just an excuse to get his games early.
Jack Thompson= Ass Hampster.
I can't believe after how many times Jack Thompson has been called an ass hat by everyone in the country that he still goes after the videogame industry. It just baffles me.
Its because uninformed, out-of-touch politicians still listen to him. Recently, some state senator referred to games giving bonus points for the number of women you rape.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
The ESA really needs to go after Thompson with slander suits...
Why dont you write that senator a letter indicating how off-base he or she is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
I did, as did a number of Gamepolitics posters (I swear, none of them know how to spell). I am trying to find the link, but I don't have the time to scan through months of GP posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
If that's the case, then it would have probably have been better if they hadn't written. I doubt a senator will take a letter seriously is it looks like it was written by IP/buttcheeks:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
"deer sennator, i like gamz, jak tomson iz a poopie hed. thankes."
Everyone has an advocacy group, even gamers.
They don't do nearly enough. The videogame industry is as vilified today as the tobacco industry.Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
Uhh... not really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
lawl That'd be the day I pick up and move out.
Video games are too silly to be taken that seriously
Agreed. The videogame industry has won essentially everytime it gets its day in court. Big tobacco, on the other hand, gets handed loss after loss while paying out billions (and after today maybe billions more).Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I'm not talking about the judgements against/for the games industry. I am referring to the attitude politicians and political commentators have towards videogames.
Just look at how apeshit the city of Las Vegas went over the upcoming Rainbow 6 game. And yet, countless movies take place and concern incidents (and also bad stuff) happening in said city. Where is the outrage over the movies?
1. movie studios have to pay the city to get the rights to film there. For a city like Vegas I imagine its a substantial sum. I dont know if Ubi Soft is paying LV but I doubt it.
2. Movie studios have sucessfully convinced LV that staging their movies there is good for business. If game studios haven't done that then they need to get on it. And if its NOT good for business, then why would the city be happy to have a game where terrorists are running amok take place there?
It didn't have to do with $$- it had more to do with the city officials being offended that the game had terrorists take over LV.
"Lives are at stake, while your Mr. Foti does press conferences on Hurricane Katrina"
HOLY SHIT!! He actually thinks his anti-game law is more important than Katrina!
Link:
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/349747.html
lol.
Jack Thompson needs to play some Mortal Kombat and chill out.
I say let him keep lobbying for these bullshit laws, the more precedents we have on the books that these are blatantly unconstitutional, the better.
He's been going batshit looney lately. Apparently, the 1st Amendment isn't absolute or important in his world:
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/356172.html
It doesn't surprise me that Jack sees the First Amendment as an obstacle to whatever he wants. Thank goodness he's not running the country. He'd probably jail anyone who criticized him. Could it be that he cares not a damn about the children, but is actually more of a control freak?
The good thing? His carrying on is making the anti-VG-violence movement look like a bunch of jackasses. :sneak: He will fail and continue to look like a fool.
JT's (and most of the anti-game crowd's) "smoking gun" has been snuffed:
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/365275.html
Apparently, JT is now a detective- just like Batman!
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/01/16/m...pson/#comments
JT is so willing and eager to put the blame on gaming that he'll take ANYTHING to make his view float. People who know the family should get in contact with them and do whatever it takes to turn them away from him.
I think JT kidnapped the kid.
If he's that desperate, he probably did.
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-imag...ustinkyle3.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
linkQuote:
Earlier this week, Utah's Jack Thompson-authored video game bill was pulled by Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff because he believed the bill would be found unconstitutional. This, of course, sent Thompson into a whirling tizzy and caused him to do the typical press release pimp-slap against Shurtleff.
Thompson writes, "This is a constitutional bill. I ought to know. I drafted one nearly identical to it for Louisiana, and we got it passed unanimously... The federal judge declared it unconstitutional because, he said, 'there is no evidence that these games are harmful. The Attorney General has provided me no evidence.' And the judge was right, because the Louisiana AG took what we call 'a dive.' ... because he wanted the law to fail."
Thompson is in Utah today giving a speech at the ultra-conservative Eagle Forum in Salt Lake City -- so we're sure some lovely barbs will be thrown at Shurtleff. AG Shurtleff probably wasn't too keen on having Utah suffer the same fate as Illinois, which was forced to pay back the gaming industry the half-million they spent fighting a similar bill that was deemed unconstitutional. Next stop on the Thompson anti-game express: Massachusetts. All aboard!
I'm all for an anti-Jack Thompson lobby.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/03/ja...linary-action/
Here we go, boys and girls! He's up for review because of five counts of misconduct thanks to the Florida Supreme Court. In retaliation, Jack Thompson sued the bar.
This could be fun.
Lol, loser. Hopefully he'll be disbarred and we'll find him living under a bridge in a year.
Seriously, I'm surprised he hasn't already been disbarred for conduct unbecoming the profession (or something like that) just for his infamous e-mail exchanges.
Random bit of Jack Thompson shenanigans-
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/05/08/h...ies-with-that/
He's complaining that, seeing as Manhunt 2 will be on Wii, Wendy's shouldn't be promoting them with a toy tie-in. No legal anything is happening, just a random e-mail, but it's still a pretty amazing leap of logic. Manunt 2 is evil, so Wendy's shouldn't promote a system its appearing on. Yeah, that makes sense.
James
we should make an "absurd" tie in to how being a lawyer is evil cause O.J. was acquitted, see if it makes his head explodes and he sues himself.
I suppose if Jack can't lay his hands on Take Two anymore, he'll go after someone bigger...
http://www.gamealmighty.com/story-in...tes_on_Halo_3/
Quote:
Bill Gates
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, Washington
Re: Halo 3
Dear Mr. Gates:
As you know, the Federal Trade Commission has repeatedly found that games rated “Mature” by the video game industry-captured Entertainment Software Rating Board are routinely sold to kids under the age of 17 despite the age rating. The most recent failure rate of the ratings on “Mature” games, according to the FTC, is 42%. The entire rating system is a fraud, and “broken,” the latter description aptly provided by Senator Hillary Clinton.
As you also know, Lee Boyd Malvo trained on Microsoft’s Halo to further enable him to become the remarkably efficient “DC Beltway Sniper.” That was reported by NBC News at the time and was noted in Malvo’s criminal trial.
You appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes II and rather revealing and usefully noted that “the cool thing about these games is that they transport you to a world you think is real.” Precisely. Capcom has recently disclosed to investors that your video game industry’s violent games, sold to children, pose a real hazard to the health of the industry. Right on.
The hyperviolent Microsoft Xbox 360 game Halo 3 is scheduled by your company for commercial release in September of this year. The Beta version that was released last week shows us all just how violent the game is and how inappropriate it is for play by anyone under 17, as the “Mature” rating it will surely receive indicates.
Here’s the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3.
Regards, Jack Thompson
he realizes microsoft could sell halo 3 off the backs of unmarked trucks and still sell a gajillion copies, right?
Problem is he's going after the wrong guy for all the wrong reasons. Gates could just fire back with a court order to make him to stop, or he can get his practice removed entirely since he's considerably bigger then the gov.
HA. Legal actions against MS.
This I can't wait to see.
When did this happen? Not the quote, I mean the video games that transport anyone to a world they think is real. Thompson is basing his threat on cheap marketing speak.Quote:
You appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes II and rather revealing and usefully noted that “the cool thing about these games is that they transport you to a world you think is real.”
James
The motherfucking JUSTICE DEPARTMENT couldn't touch Billy Boy. His zombie ninja lawyers are gonna rape Jacko's ass 'til the friction sets him on fire.
I know! When did 60 Minutes II come out?Quote:
Originally Posted by James
On Topic: I would LOVE to see Jackie boy try and take on MS. But he's most likely blowing hot air.
Jack Thompson is a real life joke account.
He's an embarrassment to the Florida Bar. They should just disbar him already.
I can't believe they're even going to this lengths to try to keep him around or something.
A statement like that speaks volumes considering how much Florida is an embarrassment to the US in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeve
Fuck the Florida Bar, he's an embarassment to the entire legal profession.
No, he's pretty accurately portraying it.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/13/th...-against-best/
Quote:
We have just received an email from Attorney Jack Thompson stating that his 15-year-old son purchased the Mature-rated game BioShock from a local Best Buy. Thompson informs us that BioShock is created by "the notorious Take-Two interactive," you may remember them from publishing such ultra-violent games as Grand Theft Auto. Thompson says that in using his son in a sting operation, he's proven "that Take-Two's upcoming releases of hyperviolent and sex-themed Manhunt 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV will be widely sold to kids of all ages, despite promises by Take-Two, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), and major retailers." No word if Thompson will allow his son to play the copy of BioShock he purchased.
Thompson goes on to say that retailers and the gaming industry are "engaged in a fraudulent and deceptive trade practice across the nation" by claiming to check IDs. This is exacerbated by his son purchasing the M-rated game from the same Best Buy store Thompson sent his son to buy Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at when he was 10-years-old. Thompson is demanding that Best Buy fire the store's manager and the girl with the "piercing through her right eyebrow" who sold his son the game. Thompson finishes by saying, "The entire video game age rating system is a fraud perpetrated upon American families from sea to shining sea." We should keep that in mind the next time we recruit our own child into a crusade and approve of him or her purchasing an M-rated game.