Comments on: Take-Two’s Bully under fire http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10107 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10107/comment-page-1#comment-128764 Reader's Write Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:45:25 +0000 #comment-128764 Watch the trailers on Gamespot. It's about a kid who stands up to bullies in a reform school. He protects his friends when they get picked on and fights back when the "bad guys" give him a hard time. Jack Tompson is just pissed because a) it's got violence in it and b) it's Rockstar. This is the kind of game I'd actually be playing WITH my kid and talking about the issues involved. Watch the trailers on Gamespot. It’s about a kid who stands up to bullies in a reform school. He protects his friends when they get picked on and fights back when the “bad guys” give him a hard time.

Jack Tompson is just pissed because a) it’s got violence in it and b) it’s Rockstar.

This is the kind of game I’d actually be playing WITH my kid and talking about the issues involved.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10107/comment-page-1#comment-128754 Reader's Write Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:12:40 +0000 #comment-128754 A SLAPP--strategic lawsuit against public participation--is designed to take a controversy of public interest and turn it into a private civil lawsuit. This benefits a SLAPP plaintiff by allowing them to silence the opposition by having more money to hire lawyers, rather than competing with the opposition in the public forum. Many states have laws giving defendants extra protections against SLAPPs. Florida is one of them. I'm hoping Florida law recognizes _Bully_ to be the creative work that addresses social issues of wide public interest it is, and Jack Thompson's nuisance claim to be the SLAPP that it is. The essence of anti-SLAPP laws: If you have a problem with speech, you organize boycotts, you write letters, you make phone calls. You can't just drag the speaker into court and try to outlawyer the speech into silence. A SLAPP–strategic lawsuit against public participation–is designed to take a controversy of public interest and turn it into a private civil lawsuit. This benefits a SLAPP plaintiff by allowing them to silence the opposition by having more money to hire lawyers, rather than competing with the opposition in the public forum.

Many states have laws giving defendants extra protections against SLAPPs. Florida is one of them. I’m hoping Florida law recognizes _Bully_ to be the creative work that addresses social issues of wide public interest it is, and Jack Thompson’s nuisance claim to be the SLAPP that it is.

The essence of anti-SLAPP laws: If you have a problem with speech, you organize boycotts, you write letters, you make phone calls. You can’t just drag the speaker into court and try to outlawyer the speech into silence.

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