No, this isn't a joke.

Jack Thompson, a controversial crusader against violence in games, will be permanently disbarred as of October 25, reports GamePolitics. In handing down its decision, the Florida Supreme Court cited Thompson's extensive history of public misconduct, along with recommendations from Judge Dava Tunis, the official who presided over Thompson's 2007 ethics trial.
Along with disbarring Thompson, the official court order (pdf) also demands monetary restitution of $43,675.
In response, Thompson has filed a request with the U.S. District Court seeking an emergency stay of the Florida Supreme Court's decision, as well as publishing a press release that claims the Court's decision is "in retaliation for Thompson’s Tyndale House book Out of Harm’s Way, published in 2005, which blew the whistle on the Florida Supreme Court’s earlier efforts in the 1990’s to literally pathologize his faith-based and successful activism against the American entertainment industry."

WIRED.COM

Your thoughts?

..."I'm wet" doesn't count.

Torr's mom is wet.

Didn't this already supposedly happen twice?

It was stated that it would happen, not that it had happened. There was never any sort of definitive "you're losing your license" closure to the story before this. Technically, since we're into Sept. 25th, he's already banned.

Eddie_the_Hated


No, this isn't a joke.

Jack Thompson, a controversial crusader against violence in games, will be permanently disbarred as of October 25, reports GamePolitics. In handing down its decision, the Florida Supreme Court cited Thompson's extensive history of public misconduct, along with recommendations from Judge Dava Tunis, the official who presided over Thompson's 2007 ethics trial.
Along with disbarring Thompson, the official court order (pdf) also demands monetary restitution of $43,675.
In response, Thompson has filed a request with the U.S. District Court seeking an emergency stay of the Florida Supreme Court's decision, as well as publishing a press release that claims the Court's decision is "in retaliation for Thompson’s Tyndale House book Out of Harm’s Way, published in 2005, which blew the whistle on the Florida Supreme Court’s earlier efforts in the 1990’s to literally pathologize his faith-based and successful activism against the American entertainment industry."

WIRED.COM

Your thoughts?

..."I'm wet" doesn't count.

I never said wet, I said moist.

Anyway, its honestly about time the American Judicial system did something about at least one of the "activist" lawyers who are wasting so much time and money on morality crusades.

We're in the middle of a recession, possibly a depression, and if people are getting payed to make pixels blow each other up, then so be it god damn it, he needs to stop worrying about morality and promote the expansion of the industry as it creates more jobs, etc.

Without say, GTA, tons of developers would be unemployed, marketing teams would be unemployed, the IT/Network Admins/Network Security department that are required to run the online servers would be unemployed, the CSR reps, as shitty as they are, would be unemployed, it hits everything down to the most basic thing like retail employees.  It's just fucking stupid to be against PROSPERITY.

emofag


We're in the middle of a recession, possibly a depression, and if people are getting payed to make pixels blow each other up, then so be it god damn it, he needs to stop worrying about morality and promote the expansion of the industry as it creates more jobs, etc.

Without say, GTA, tons of developers would be unemployed, marketing teams would be unemployed, the IT/Network Admins/Network Security department that are required to run the online servers would be unemployed, the CSR reps, as shitty as they are, would be unemployed, it hits everything down to the most basic thing like retail employees.  It's just fucking stupid to be against PROSPERITY.

Ok, now I'm wet! 

But anyways, Great post!