Facebook Sued By Anti-Video-Gamer Jack Thompson, Citing "Kill Obama" Facebook Poll As Precedence

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Source: Huffington Post

Jack Thompson, a longtime critic of video games, has sued Facebook for $40 million on charges that the site harmed him by failing to remove threatening content that was posted by its users.

Thompson gained notoriety for his lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto's Take Two Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and Wal-Mart, arguing that video games caused violent behavior, as well as for his appearance on a 2005 60 Minutes episode where he likened a video game to a "murder simulator".

That stance seems to have gained him little love on Facebook among gamers, where users have posted groups such as the 255-member "Jack Thompson should be smacked across the face with an Atari 2600" or 370-member "I Hate Jack Thompson".

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Thompson argues that the posts on Facebook directed at him have caused him "great harm and distress," Macworld writes.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/01/facebook-sued-by-anti-vid_n_305988.html

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Yet another conservative crybaby.

[ck4829]

1. 10 dollars says this disbarred lawyer voted "YES" on that very same poll

[TlalocW]

2. Best Jack Thompson stories

From the guys who do the online comic, "Penny Arcade."

They're blog posts so you may want to start at the bottom and read up.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/10/12/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/10/14/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/10/17/

And the comic detailing it:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/14/

TlalocW

[naaman fletcher]

4. Thompson was also a Freeptard

Many, many years ago. Anyway, he would get into flamewars with people, which predictably would result in him threatening to sue everybody who was against him in the flame war. It was funny stuff. I used to read FR a lot back then (this was early days, 98,99) when there were a lot of interesting libertarian-type posters. Not that I agreed with them (well I do on some things i.e. drugs, prostitution) but in general I found interesting articles posted there (at the time it was a good place to find news, as it was an early news aggregator site). Anyway, I was banned along with all the interesting people in the run-up to the 2000 election where everybody who expressed the slightest doubts about W was banned.

[JonLP24]

3. That guy is like an ambulance chaser times 10 n/t