2:33 AM on 05.03.2007
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According to FortBendNow, via Slashdot, a high school student at Clements High School in Fort Bend, Texas was arrested (and expelled) for creating a Counterstrike map that replicated the grounds of his school.
The student in question apparently created the map as a free download used primarily by himself and his friends, but since administrators simply lack the ability to differentiate fiction from non-fiction, as soon as they stopped looking for the Quad Damage, they removed him from class. Later, police went to the boy's house where they arrested him and confiscated a hammer under the pretense that it could potentially be a "dangerous weapon".
The sheer idiocy of this event goes to show just how successful the media has been at convincing the general public that video games are tantamount to Rushdie's The Satanic Verses for inciting violence. If parents and teachers could just learn to spend time getting to know the interests of the children they have in their care, instead of condemning them for those same interests, many fewer kids would find it necessary to seek out assault rifles to express themselves.
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Can you say culture of fear?
When I read the article that was linked from Kotaku(which I think was the Fort Bend paper), it named CS as the game. Even in the comments, the writer of the article even clarified that it wasn't a modified version of CS, but the original CS
At the very least, you have to admit it was done in poor taste. Just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean its sensible.
Now bring on the hate..
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Let's try this again.
DANGEROUS WEAPON
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Good story, except you've got your facts wrong. The boy was not expelled, he was transferred to the district's special education school and not allowed to partake in his class' graduation ceremonies. He also was not arrested, nor were any criminal charges filed.
Please check sources, kthxbai.
I still think it's ridiculous.
I would've really enjoyed something like that as a cathartic release, yet, I don't actually own a gun or any deadly, deadly hammers...
Rant GO!!! This is simply ridiculous. Confiscating a hammer? WTF? I guess we should also ban any kind of laser tag, paintball, and hell, lets ban all videogames so there is absolutely no chance people will replicate them in any context. That goes for sports games too. We don't want people pretending they are pro-baseballers and getting killed when someone throws a 10mph speed ball.
This should be a wake up call to ALL gamers out there, start making a difference in your community, or your morality will be dictated to you by people who never touched a game console for fear of it's "satan inducing powers".
Just thoughts, but everyone should be having them...
If we get in a world where Pokemon is outlawed because it models animal cruelty, I'll lead the Revolution (we'll codename Wii and everyone will be confused).
LET'S STAND BY OUR OWN, PEOPLE!!! LET'S LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER!!!
Is it just me, or are all of these school board members, political leaders, and media personalitys, ignorant and retarded as Justin"Whats a video game?"Murry. Besides, i've seen cs,far cry, and doom maps of schools, buildings, wal-marts, wtf? Does it really matter that much?
-Benjamin Franklin
Just a little description of what is happening to us, in regards to free speech, i.e. videogames.