Brazil Debates "Offensive" Games Ban
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I think God needs to be imprisoned for three years. Its clear he's descriminating against people that don't believe in him by denying them access to heaven.
That's prejudice on an epic scale right there.
That's prejudice on an epic scale right there.
My heart goes out to our Brazilian counterparts. May you weather this incompetent storm with iron stomachs!!!
Newspaper headlines wordwide - 2011
"Brazil has been taken over in a violent coup by a neo-political group known as 'Gamers 4 Justice' who have begun to distribute long-banned games to the general populace for free, in order to make up for the years of oppression they have faced from the now ex-Brazilian government..."
Newspaper headlines wordwide - 2011
"Brazil has been taken over in a violent coup by a neo-political group known as 'Gamers 4 Justice' who have begun to distribute long-banned games to the general populace for free, in order to make up for the years of oppression they have faced from the now ex-Brazilian government..."
Haha! "They were heavily armed with katanas, rocket launchers and... turtle shells."UtopiaV1 said:
But seriously, things are starting to look a lot like V for Vendetta.
So they'd be left with only the games that couldn't possibly offend anybody for any reason. Yeah that's probably Flower and... something for the Wii. And that's it.
Okay, pipe down, you. The quote, whose Portuguese original is just as stupid, comes from the report from the comitee related to the Ministry of Culture, which is favorable to the bill. The bill aims to change a law that essentially says prejudices are bad, specifically an article which generally bans 'inciting' ethnical, religious etc. prejudice. It's so loosely worded I can barely believe it's on an actual Constitution.
The bill ammends this article to make producing videogames that may offend religious traditions (it is specific to religion) akin to producing swastikas with the aim of promoting nazism. The law itself makes no mention of other media, although it increases the jail time if the offensive material is published through any "social communication media or publications of any nature".
Notice while the main goal of this law is to prevent racial et all discrimination, it criminalizes speech. I am still trying to find what the Brazilian version of the American First Ammendment is, but I know it's not as all-reaching as the gringo version - you can be arrested for saying something, and it has happened, although only to people who were talking about white supremacy and homophobia.
The bill still has to go past the comission that checks whether or not it's legal, at which point I have hope that it will be rejected due to its vague wording, or at least ammended into harmlessness. But having seen the original law, I have little hope.
I will damn well do something, but Brazilians are one of the people who care the least about their politicians, essentially adopting a 'well, they suck anyway!' policy, and gamers are possibly the subculture who cares the least about anything outside of their zone of interest. I might have more luck trying to train ants to march on the Senate in protest than to get Brazilian gamers to even raise an eyebrow. But I'll damn try.
The bill ammends this article to make producing videogames that may offend religious traditions (it is specific to religion) akin to producing swastikas with the aim of promoting nazism. The law itself makes no mention of other media, although it increases the jail time if the offensive material is published through any "social communication media or publications of any nature".
Notice while the main goal of this law is to prevent racial et all discrimination, it criminalizes speech. I am still trying to find what the Brazilian version of the American First Ammendment is, but I know it's not as all-reaching as the gringo version - you can be arrested for saying something, and it has happened, although only to people who were talking about white supremacy and homophobia.
The bill still has to go past the comission that checks whether or not it's legal, at which point I have hope that it will be rejected due to its vague wording, or at least ammended into harmlessness. But having seen the original law, I have little hope.
I will damn well do something, but Brazilians are one of the people who care the least about their politicians, essentially adopting a 'well, they suck anyway!' policy, and gamers are possibly the subculture who cares the least about anything outside of their zone of interest. I might have more luck trying to train ants to march on the Senate in protest than to get Brazilian gamers to even raise an eyebrow. But I'll damn try.
