Zero Punctuation: Video Game Voters Network
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Hopefully this will expand into an international voters bloc, the same way say environmentalism has broadly speaking a unified political view.
Otherwise this'll just be another abbreviation group in America that did something and has no impact in the media or politics of other English speaking countries (never mind the one's that don't speach Yahtzeetongue). In Ireland this stuff doesn't get picked up in the newspapers or the 6 o clock news (further proof of underrepesentation perhaps?)
I hope the groups ambition does entend that way. If it happens I want to be told. As it is, all I can do is support the local branch of the Pirate Party in the EU, but their platform is solely intellectual property reform, which is at most tangental to the prevention of demonising of computer game playing voters.
The gamers I have most in common with politically don't necessarily live in my constituency; hell just look at the list of "best wishes but I don't live in the US" posts above and below mine. And even then I've no doubt my views on the pirate party aren't shared with all my friends; but if the VGVN is serious about making an impact it needs to find or establish its equivalents abroad.
They could do a lot worse than the email the student unions of universities and colleges with courses that teach both politics and programming courses.
Otherwise this'll just be another abbreviation group in America that did something and has no impact in the media or politics of other English speaking countries (never mind the one's that don't speach Yahtzeetongue). In Ireland this stuff doesn't get picked up in the newspapers or the 6 o clock news (further proof of underrepesentation perhaps?)
I hope the groups ambition does entend that way. If it happens I want to be told. As it is, all I can do is support the local branch of the Pirate Party in the EU, but their platform is solely intellectual property reform, which is at most tangental to the prevention of demonising of computer game playing voters.
The gamers I have most in common with politically don't necessarily live in my constituency; hell just look at the list of "best wishes but I don't live in the US" posts above and below mine. And even then I've no doubt my views on the pirate party aren't shared with all my friends; but if the VGVN is serious about making an impact it needs to find or establish its equivalents abroad.
They could do a lot worse than the email the student unions of universities and colleges with courses that teach both politics and programming courses.
Is anyone else kinda ashamed that one of the political activists of games makes his money via obscure references and knob jokes?
Although I'm all for political activism in general, I think that the ruckus concerning this Supreme Court case is blown a bit out of proportion. After all this is practically the same Court which in April in an 8 to 1 decision struck down a federal ban on videos of dog and cock fighting in spite of the fact that such fights are illegal to conduct in all 50 states. And in another 1st amendment case earlier in year the Supreme Court struck down federal laws regulating corporate financing of political campaigns, finding that corporate donations count as "free speech" under the first amendment.
Both of these laws had wide support among Americans. But they were struck down because they violated the 1st amendment. In fact besides traditional restrictions on free speech related to libel, slander and inciting panic there is only one form of speech which the Supreme Court has ever said it was ok to ban completely: child pornography. And even that wasn't a unanimous decision. For better or worse the United States has the most liberal free speech laws in the world, and our Supreme Court has traditionally recognized and honored that.
In short, I'm almost positive that California and the other states supporting this lawsuit are going to get their asses handed to them.
Both of these laws had wide support among Americans. But they were struck down because they violated the 1st amendment. In fact besides traditional restrictions on free speech related to libel, slander and inciting panic there is only one form of speech which the Supreme Court has ever said it was ok to ban completely: child pornography. And even that wasn't a unanimous decision. For better or worse the United States has the most liberal free speech laws in the world, and our Supreme Court has traditionally recognized and honored that.
In short, I'm almost positive that California and the other states supporting this lawsuit are going to get their asses handed to them.
Shut up. That blond monkey (no offence intended) can't do shit. we've got a contitution and such, wich is there to prevent weird ideas from breaking through in the government and becoming laws that discriminate certain religious/cultural/foreign groups. (again, this is just a blunt comment with no offence intended. If anyone feels offended then you should have yourself checked by a professional crazy-person-checker or a psychologist or something, wichever you prefer.)De Ronneman said:
