God, Apple, I hate you and your stupid ass capitalization even more, now. Way to let it spread to Fox News. Plus after I read the first 3 words in the title of the article, I knew it was going to be something stupid.John Funk said:
News Report on Kinect Sex Hack Could Arouse Parents' Fears
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Ah, now that I've gotten the tea that sprayed from my mouth off of my keyboard, I can type a response.starwarsgeek said:
It warms my heart when an agenda this blatant gets spread around because it lends greater credibility to those fighting it. Yes, there are going to be folks who use the latest technology to further the spread of porn. This is not news. This happened when the printing press came along, happened when cameras were invented, happened with the creation of motion pictures, and yes, Kinect is going to carry porn to new and weird horizons where most of us will shudder and go, "Man, there are some sick people on this planet."
To those who seem to think that Fox needs defending, please don't. If they had a modicum of ethics, they'd apologize for the glaring distortions they put on the screen or at least hire editors who could filter out the obvious dross from the stuff that could pass for actual news. Fox learned a long while ago that they don't have to apologize for spraying bull far and wide and that's not just the affiliate stations, but the main channels as well. They lean very far to the right, they blatantly cater to the paranoia of their core audience, they know it, and they smile as they lie about being fair and balanced.
This is not a bad thing. Know why? Because nobody has any illusions about what they will see when they turn on Fox. It allows those who enjoy this sort of thing to put it on their favourite channel list and lets the rest of us put a parental block on the channel with the solemn warning that anyone who tries to access said channel will have the remote taken away from them before having it brought down on their fingers. And, as I said, when the time comes to fight the folks who use these stories as justification for legislation or condeming video games as being morally degenerate, those of us on the defending side of games can sit back and laugh before tearing the arguments apart.
The first thing I thought of when I saw that title was Peter Molyneux molesting that virtual kid of his, Milo. Am I a bad person?
And so the parents would be accountable?John Funk said:
NO WAY!
Of course it's the developer's fault for making the hack, Microsoft's fault for not making the hack impossible. The good lord's fault for allowing such developers and Microsoft to create these platforms + hacks. WOW! the media can be so very very smart sometimes! If little Johnny aged 6 steals Mum's car and runs over 6 prostitutes (because he did it in Grand Theft Auto) then the game must be telling him to do this!
I can't believe that there are people out there that are free to publish such crap! It's scary to think that outside of the escapist safe zone the world is full of ..... those people :O
Just so you know, consistently writing "Faux Noise" instead of the actual name greatly decreases the credibility of everything else in the post; the reader immediately develops the idea that you're an extremely biased person. Just a writing tip.LightPurpleLighter said:
OT: I wouldn't really call this a "Fox News" report, but oh well. This is still pretty bad; they technically never post any incorrect information, but they string everything together so as to imply things that aren't even close to true.
I was wondering when this would appear on mainstream media.... For some reason this reminds of Mass Effect and Fox's "story" on it. Bloody sex box perverting our children's innocence.
You are correct Fox News itself does not report such obvious sensationalist news they just don't report on what Republicans are doing to 9/11 responders. [http://www.dirigoblue.com/diary/2289/fox-news-fails-to-note-that-it-was-republican-senators-that-blocked-911-health-care-bill]x434343 said:
True, what you say is true my friend, but knowing Fox News' corporate policy concerning less-than-likely events that have an enormous potential for creating fear, I doubt that they would care. But yes, it is worth mentioning the national chain did not endorse it.x434343 said:
Well, the worst that could happen is it turns the latest generation into perverts and sex addicts. Thus turning offices into a very hostile place in 10-20 years that is assuming the sexual tension is unwelcome, but if you look at the aforementioned utilization of "Perverts" it will not be. There will be no productivity and society will stop just as the second baby-boom will begin. We will be pushed back (technologically speaking) into the 14th century. Billions will starve, and we will quickly turn into a tribal society fighting over resources that were once bountiful. After the dust settles there will be too few humans to continue the species and we will all die out. Although porn will see an increase in business, so there is a silver lining.SnipErlite said: