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It takes many cameras to make a movie, but only one camera to ruin it..."
I'm not insane, I'm sure someone out there has seen this ad at the theater and sees how it correlates with this prouct which is sure make Youtube even more annoying... Reply
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This whole thing is ludicrous! Reply
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But getting to the point, trying to censor information or a type of thing in a particular country is pretty much like a parent that says you will not do this because I said so. Rather than I'd like you to understand that this bit is fiction and this bit is real and here's the line that you shouldn't cross. Maybe these politicians should watch the Penn and Teller: Bullshit episode on Violent Videogames that showed how an actual 9 year old reacted to real guns despite playing these 'Killerspiel'.
Instead of banning them, perhaps an understanding of people should be brought about. I remember attending an independant film-makers conference where similar to this there was a much older film-maker who was attacking a much younger one (who managed to get an audience thanks to piracy and crowdsourcing). While the two may not be similar, censorship issues like this are mostly due to a generational gap which prevents one group from understanding the other. As for people who going on real life killing sprees they are disturbed individuals of course.
More than games, I'd blame the media coverage of these events by sort of making them look semi anti-heroish instead of not showing who these people are and not making a huge news deal out of it thereby not giving enough information to potential psychopaths that their actions will be taken notice of by the larger public thanks to the 24hr media coverage in some cases. Reply
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