Anti-game activist Jack Thompson brands ESA "criminal"

Gamespot ^ | 7/15/05 | Tor Thorsen

[Quick1]

There are reasoned arguments for censoring a game that's rated M for mature?

[Tempest]

Ohhh dear. This clown is supposedly a conservative and a freeper to boot... $100 says that this clown has since gone the way of one of those silly 3rd party fringe conservative groups.

[Jdelaney]

I dunno, JT seems to be completely off his rocker about Hot Coffee anyway, surely hacking a game to expose content that was never ment to come to light and then blaming the makers of the game is equivelent to suing Cadillac after removing the brakes from Your own car and crashing, the potential was there, but you did it yourself ! Plus isn't free pornography much more available than the HC hack anyhow?

[dennisw]

Is this the same Jack Thompsom who was big on FR in earlier years?
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I would think so. He's lives here in South Florida

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Is this the same Jack Thompson who was big on FR in earlier years?"

Yes, it's the same lawyer Jack Thompson from Florida. He wasn't 'big' here, just loud and prolific in posting. If you don't fully remember his antics here, he was quite completely insane. I'm no psychologist, but he acted like a paranoid schizophrenic. Total narcissist.

JimRob finally kicked him out of here after he threatened to sue everyone. If you didn't agree with everything he said, you were 'obviously on drugs'.

Most of us thought he was just a liberal disruptor in disguise until we discovered he was genuinely insane after he made a few public appearances.

He made a good fortune soaking doctors for medical malpractice and then went on a one-man crusade against video games.