Poll: Would you emigrate to another country if gaming was banned/outlawed

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Kathinka

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"defect"...the op says it like it would be some kind of crime to move to another country..

as for the question: i would keep gaming illegally (and participate in the ensuing riots, of course^^ ).

this actually pretty much happened in greece some years ago. they wanted to creat a new rating system and as a "security measure" banned all forms of electronic entertainment software, pc or console. needles to say it didn't last longer then a few days.
 
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sadly no i would not, i am somewhat of a picky eater and i need my american food, otherwise i'd probably die, so i'd just stay and hope the U.S. realized how hypocritical its laws are if they just up and banned gaming.
 

BanicRhys

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Hell, with the state of gaming as it is in Australia right now, I'm pretty sure I'm going to leave this damned country anyway. And I'll be sure to leave a special "present" on Ms. Gillard's doorstep before I go.
 

Talespinner

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Nah, I'd stay and keep playing games.

Not like I respect any other of my country's laws; why should this be an exception?
 

NezumiiroKitsune

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There's only my lack of savings keeping me in the UK, as well as some university. However as soon as university's over, and I'm financially buffered, there's little keeping me in the UK. I'll miss my friends, but I can't see myself continuing to live alongside the current nonsense of the UK government with it's ineffectualness and achieve-nothing-hesitancy.

Basically, outlawing gaming would not so much stimulate me to leave as eject me at warp speed somewhere not here. I'd probably stay in Europe for healthcare, or go to the far-east. I'd like the option to revisit the UK to see family and friends, so staying nearby is desirable.

I'd also fight it and put all my efforts into exposing it as the incompetent, narrow-minded, fear mongering and economically devastating law it is. Which is to say, I wouldn't abandon the country altogether. Outlawing gaming should be equated to outlawing fictional books.

However how the hell would they enforce it?
 

Not-here-anymore

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Yeah, I'd move. Not specifically because of the game banning though, but more because if a government's gonna do that, they clearly have a very low opinion of free speech, and are likely to clamp down elsewhere. I ain't stopping around for that
 

TacticalAssassin1

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brumley53 said:
I already kind of want to leave Australia. Only problem is I don't know where I would move to...
Same here. Australia sucks. But America has way too many problems of it's own. Europe mabye?
 

SsilverR

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If the UK banned games, then i know there's no chance for marijuana .... sooo ... yeah, i'm out.
 

Apprentice88

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I'd stay and fight the good fight until my dying breath if necessary.

Like hell they're banning my livelihood as an independent games dev.
 

Wintermoot

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either I would illegally practice gaming or defect.(although I,m already hoping I can move to the USA or UK after I,m done with school since my country is pretty much run by asshats)
for me this is a pretty serious possibility thanks to my country being next to Germany.(I don,t have anything against German,s except for their politicians making anti-gaming laws)
 

JWAN

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A government that bans games will probably start banning other forms of media as well. So I would move or horde my games.
 

Estarc

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The short answer is yes.

The long answer is that I would certainly want to - videogames are my favourite type of entertainment - but that it would be hard. I don't exactly have the money or anything to just move to another bloody country, not to mention the people I'd be leaving behind.
 

silver wolf009

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Given the means, most definatly. I however lack the means, so I'll just hollow out a section of my lawn and use it as a station along the secret Undergame Railroad.
 

Korolev

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As for "rebelling" - most rebellions fail. That's the truth of the matter. If they can ban gaming, then they probably have soviet-style police-state powers, and you can't fight against that. The Soviet Union only fell because the government got soft - Gorbachev, bless him, was big ole softy who let the people become brave. If Stalin was in charge during the 80's, he'd have crushed all protests and the Soviet Union would still be around to this very day. If you have an authoritarian enough government, NO rebellion can possibly win. Look at North Korea - even Starvation hasn't brought down the government, because the government has atomized society - you can literally trust NO ONE. If you can't trust anyone, how can you build a revolution? The trick to staying in power is to atomize society - turn ever 3rd person into an informant. Put spies everywhere. Randomly arrest people for no reason - that's what Stalin did, and Stalin was never challenged or overthrown, because he had such a tight grip on soviet society that any organization against him was literally impossible. He turned everyone against each other and used his insanely random brutality to scare people stiff. And this was back in the 30's - today, surveillance equipment is much more advanced and it's easier than ever for police to quickly suppress rebellions and protests - look at China: they have thousands of very large protests EVERY YEAR, and yet you never hear about them. Why? Because the minute a protest breaks out the Chinese government is on them in literally MINUTES, beating the hell out of them. And China is a comparatively open society compared to places like North Korea.

It might hurt to say this, but history has proven that if a government really wants to, it can destroy any threat to it, if it is ruthless and bloody enough. Despite leading Germany into Disaster, there was never a wide spread popular rebellion against Hitler. Only a few generals ever tried to kill him - the majority of the population was cowed into utter submission. Same with the Roman Emperors - no internal uprising ever lasted long - they crucified sparticus, just so ya know. He didn't win.

So I'd flee and go to a freer nation and try to organize external pressure to break the bad government. Organized resistance is usually hopeless - the rebels straggle on and on for a while, but often never achieve anything without the help of people in positions of power.

That's another alternative - stay, but don't rebel - instead, enter the system itself and conspire to overthrow the regime.

So I'd run.
 

Kair

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I would stay and keep gaming.

There are laws and there is what is right.
 

Sethzard

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I'd definitley move, it would be a nightmare without games as they just provide so much entertainment for relatively little money.
 

Fetzenfisch

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Gaming as in Videogames, or all of gaming? Will the police raid my rpg group during our campaign? Then we will have to move. If they ban videogames i actually wouldnt care , because internet.