All violent video games to be banned in Germany

[HappySqurriel]

fmc83 said:

HappySqurriel said:

fmc83 said:
Hm. I think we have to get some things straight here. I was wondering why I haven't even heard about this. A quick google research told me the story is already ten days old (5th of june). And the uproar of the gaming community is surprisingly low

1. about freedom of speech
You can basically say everything you want to say if it's not a against the constitution. Well the holocaust denial is actually a crime. Some restriction is good in my eyes. It prevents idiots to spread their bs.

Everywhere this is tried it is abused...

In Canada Ezra Levant was tried by the Human Rights Tribunal (a kangaroo court) for republishing the Dutch Mohamed cartoons in an attempt to inform people about a very important news story of the day. Several legitimate newspapers and Magazines have been tried for reporting the news when 1 individual produced a formal complaint.

2. Not want to get in a debate about gun ownership, so let's just say, that the homicide rate in germany is 0,98 in 100.000 while it's 6,1 per 100k in the USA.

There is no evidence supporting gun control as a method of controlling violent crime (in fact there tends to be a decrease in violent crime anywhere people have the right to carry a concealed weapon), and the crime rate differences can easily be explained by a very large well funded drug trade which encourages criminals to be as violent as possible.

 

1. What was the outcome of your examples? To get tried doesn't mean, that you actually broke a law. That's how democratic countries should works imo, if there's a complaint (while I agree with you, that this one is ridiculous), somebody should make clear, that the law is respected.

 

2. I see your points, but let's leave at that. In another thread we'll surely meet again to discuss this

Ezra Levant is the only person to ever get tried under Section 13 of the Human Rights act and not be convicted because he was able to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from visitors to coservative blogs across Canada, and because he had the ability to get a lot of media coverage in Canada and the United States.

Right now in Canada you're forced to be very careful about making decisions based on common sense because there is a kangaroo court out there that will punish you if you hurt someone's feelings. Mc Donald’s is being sued because someone things being forced to wash their hands when serving food violates their human rights, a woman's shelter was sued for refusing to hire a (very large) transsexual (who mostly still looked like a man) as a counsellor for rape victims, and a pastor was sued for writing a letter to the editor explaining the position of why he though gay marriage was wrong.

To make matters worse, there are several cases of employees of the HRC who have went onto websites and posted racist comments in an attempt to get other people to post racist comments, and for those people to then be sued by their friends.