Another ban hammer has fallen on Germany. Now it looks like the country, in its various Länder, has passed a law banning the public display, at LAN parties and the like, of the game Counter-Strike, effecting the closure of a tournament there.
And while it’s real easy to say something like, “lol, germany fail!,” who are we to tell someone how to run their country? If officials there feel it’s in the best interest to ban the game, so be it.
It’s not like it affects your playing Mad World in Columbus, Ohio, now does it?
via Destructoid
Could they pull a Prince and simply change the name of the game?
Yeah, it’s too sad. I live in Karlsruhe, where an ESL event canceled, just because of political pressure. There is no law forbidding these events here.
But we do have our so-called experts. For example Christian Pfeiffer, who is now 65 years old and continues to publish unverified or false papers connecting real violence like school shootings to games like Counterstrike.
After each amok shooting the yellow press claims that the killer played Counterstrike. Even when this was assuredly not the case.
Who are we to tell someone who to run their country?
We are the free people of the world not being babysat by a nanny state.
Banning the display of counterstrike? This is going too far. Germany is going to turn into a country of underground gaming.
Is the war on drugs going to be replaced with the war on gaming? Another massive failure at the expense of taxpayers.
Who are we to tell someone who to run their country?
We can’t tell them how to run their country, but we can laugh at the motion. Why don’t they go ahead and pass a law demanding parents to actually parent their children? Seems just as ridiculous as banning organized gaming events.
I would be curious to know the reasoning behind the banning … are they afraid the game trains people to kill?
Its a dumb move, and we all know it, so lets not go with the “its their country” excuse as to not commenting on the situation.
Install V chips in their brains.