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Disgusting -- Greece BANS ALL video games. ( Under Penality of Law! )
09.04.02, 16:36:43
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The Greek government has banned all electronic games across the country, including those that run on home computers, on Game Boy-style portable consoles, and on mobile phones. Thousands of tourists in Greece are unknowingly facing heavy fines or long terms in prison for owning mobile phones or portable video games.
Greek Law Number 3037, enacted at the end of July, explicitly forbids electronic games with "electronic mechanisms and software" from public and private places, and people have already been fined tens of thousands of dollars for playing or owning games.
The Greek gaming community has reacted with a mixture of shock, disbelief and anger. One Web site, www.gameland.gr, has started a news service about the ban and opened a petition to protest it. In addition, it is posting English translations of the law and messages of support from around the world.
A test case is to come before the Greek courts next week, and the Greek gaming community is already planning protests in the event that the defendant is convicted.
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Things like this drive me sick, I hate dumbass ruling bodies who think video games cause problems.. A parent who doesn't raise I child with enough common sense to seperate reality from a game is the real thing at fault. People like that shouldn't be allowed to have children in the first place. |
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Last edited by Elmdor : 09.05.02 at 11:36:43.
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I completely agree with you, except for the thing you said about the Law in Greece being gay... I just don't see how it could have anything to do with homosexuality. Hmmm...
Laws like this are definitely a mistake, and to be blamed on ignorant people who are afraid of the real truth: the principle fault lies with the parents, just as you say. When the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred, then games become a problem for those people. But video games are simply not to blame.
I hope this doesn't last long for those poor people in Greece. |
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| Greek people are wacky. Had a Greek girl friend for a while, she was a nut. Greece is a very traditional country, with very wierd laws. |
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| Thats really sickning...I never thought a vg could be banned. Yeash yeah this law is a mistake. A sense of entertainment is considered wrong now? So what next, are movies going to banned to? So why are they being banned? Yeash if this is reffering to all the deaths that are cause by it, lets just straighten this out. Video games don't kill people...People kill people. Blaming VGs and banning them is pointless imho. I'm pretty certain that the fines and people going to jail will get higher. |
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| That's idiotic. Was there even some sort of social disaster that prompted them to take this action? |
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| wats just stupid.... people should leave Greece. |
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Weird, i just heard , greece, ban, video game ,fine, prison, on the tv while searching the boards and saw this
Anyways,.. I could go on Forever about this, basically its purely idiotic but ,... man foreign countries are weird. and we are weird to them |
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| Yeah I read that article too.... =\ *shrugs* I guess it's their way. |
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WHAT?! BASTARDS!! OK, WHEN WE FINISH TAKING OVER FFR, THE ICE EMPIRE IS TAKING GREECE!!! |
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