Germany restricts game it says glorifies war

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Oliver Gassner <carpe.com () gmx de>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:39:11 +0100
To: dave () farber net
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Subject: Re: [IP] Germany restricts game it says glorifies war

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:12:03 -0500, Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
wrote:

> America at war This month, the German government listed a new game produced
> by Electronic Arts on an index of games the government considers violent.

This might be overly picky, but it is not the "government" itself but
an agency whose task by the law it is to watch over

a) content that only supposed to be in the hand of adults
b) content that breaks laws (e.g. by generating racial hatred)

The report sounds like the game is only being restricted for minors.

"Command and Conquer" to my knowledge has often been on that 'list' in
the past years. So there is no 'clear' connection to recent events.

OG


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