German Gamers Stage Protest March Against Govt. Crackdown on Violent Games
While information to that effect is sketchy so far, such a ban would be consistent with our May report on the forced cancellation of a LAN event in Stuttgart which featured Counter-Strike and Warcraft III competitions.
German gamers aren't taking these repressive measures lying down, however. An estimated 400 gamers assembled for a June protest march in Karlsruhe. German gamer Matthias Dittmayer e-mailed GamePolitics to let us know that more gamer demonstrations are planned for later this month:
Because of this [censorship] there was the (as far as I know) first demonstration of gamers in Germany with up to 400 gamers. The next 3 demonstration in Cologne, Karlsruhe and Berlin are announced for the 25th of July.
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- Nettle
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Get ready America, coming to a city near you!
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nah, there are so many fat americans playing video games all day. If a law like that was passed here all hell would break loose
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- LemonHarangue
- 5 months ago
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These guys actually go outside and protest!!!
If the L4D2, Halo ODST, and Starcraft 2 boycotters would actually go out and protest like this instead of just signing an internet forum, Bungie and everyone else would know they aren't shitting around!
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They should make their protest a violent one. Then they'll prove once and for all that you don't need to play violent videogames to behave violently.
...cus the games were banned. Get it?
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- EmperorThan
- 5 months ago
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Maybe gamers in America would be taken more seriously if we were willing to protest in the streets like these guys.
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Please stop censoring things, Germany. Let the people have their fun! I'm worried that next it will be internet access to violent games..
http://current.com/items/90408332_german-web-censorship-law-passed.htm
