The Debate
by Paolo on Jul.18, 2009, under News
Jack Thompson vs. Mark Menthenitis
I don’t know about you, but Jack Thompson sounds the most reasonable when not filtered through the liberal media like Kotaku.
Neither liberty nor the free market can be sustained without a virtuous people.
3 comments for this entry:
July 18th, 2009 on 3:59 pm
I\’ll grant you that Thompson seemed as controlled and reasonable here as I\’ve ever seen him.
I\’ll also grant you that the media does often have a liberal lean.
However, Thompson\’s reputation is his own doing. The rude, abusive, threatening, and, frankly, unbalanced things that he\’s done in the past are real and well documented. He has *earned* the ire that most of the gamer community direct at him.
If this represents some \"new Jack Thompson\", some may welcome it, eventually. But, one point does not make a trend.
July 18th, 2009 on 7:17 pm
I would like to see some of this documentation cited from first-hand sources. I’m beginning to get the impression that the Jack Thompson is the Sarah Palin of game politics. There is a huge difference that doing your own research makes when making your mind up about a person.
July 18th, 2009 on 7:30 pm
Also, if you want to talk about “unbalanced” – I don’t think that anything that Jack Thompson has done has earned him torture and death threats.