Jack Thompson beskylder Bill Gates for Virginia Tech mordene

Skrevet af: Rasmus Abildgaard Slot (Gamemakerman) - 20. april 2007 - kl. 12:45
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Tragedien som der i mandag hændte i Virginia, er gået over i USAs historie som det værste massemord nogensinde. Advokat Jack Thompson beskylder nu Bill Gates for at det kunne lade sig gøre.

Tragedien som der i mandag hændte i Virginia, er gået over i USAs historie som det værste massemord nogensinde. Advokat Jack Thompson beskylder nu Bill Gates for at det kunne lade sig gøre.

I mandags blev 32 mennesker myrdet og deres morder, den 23-årige Cho Seung-Hui begik også selvmord bagefter. Tragedien har siden da været meget omtalt og grunden til at Cho skulle have være gået amok, skulle eftersigende være hans besættelse af voldsfilm såsom Oldboy. Men den sande grund finder vi nok aldrig ud af.

Jack Thompson er en advokat som er meget imod voldelige spil og har derfor været ude at bruge denne tragedie til at få Cho til at ligne en kynisk ond Counter-Strike spiller, selvom at hans bofæller på kollegiet har sagt det modsatte om det. Thompson kunne allerede gå på Fox news 3 timer efter episoden og sige at morderen var under stærk indflydelse af voldelige spil, selvom at ingen vidste hvem det var.

I et åbent brev til Microsofts leder Bill Gates, beskylder han Bill Gates for at mordene kunne lade sig gøre, da han mener at det er Microsofts ansvar at skulle styre spillet. Problemet er blot at det er Valve som ejer hele Counter-Strike brandet og derfor er Thompsons anklager imod Bill Gates meget overflødige.

Hele brevet er som følger:

April 18, 2007

Bill Gates

Microsoft
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052 Via Fax and e-mail

Dear Mr. Gates:

On Monday, April 16, at 3:10 pm, I was a guest, as I often have been in the past, on the Fox News Channel. News anchor Bill Hemmer asked me to profile the Virginia Tech rampage killer. I did so, noting that until that day the worst school massacre in world history was at the hands of Robert Steinhaeuser, who literally trained on the Microsoft on-line, hyper-violent shooter game, Counterstrike. I mentioned your company’s game by name. I explained that the rehearsal for such a massacre is key to being able to pull it off, as efficiently as Cho, whose name we didn’t even know at the time. Cho and Steinhaeuser were able to do what they did the first time because it was not the first time. This is why the military uses this same virtual reality simulation to train soldiers to want to kill and how to kill calmly, as the witnesses of Cho said he did.

Sure enough, last night I was doing a west coast radio interview when the host said to me, "Mr. Thompson, you are right. The Washington Post is reporting right now the following:

‘Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.’"

I thus went back on the Fox News Channel, and Bill Hemmer and I explained not only that I was right about your game figuring in the Virginia Tech massacre but also that the Washington Post excised the above excerpt from the story this morning. That is yet another story. The bad news for the Post however is that you can still get the excised excerpt at http://www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2007041700563_3.html?hpid=topnews. Thus, the cat is out of the bag, and his paw prints are still on the bag. Is this a great Internet, or what?

As you know, I similalry [sic] went on NBC’s Today Show with the DC Beltway Sniper still unidentified and at-large a few years ago and told Matt Lauer and the nation that the triggerman would most likely be a teen video gamer trained on a sniper video game. The tarot card was a clue, but there were other clues. I was right, as Malvo trained on your Microsoft game, Halo. NBC reported that three months later, and it was part of the criminal trial of Malvo.

Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill. You knew five years ago that your on-line game, Counterstrike, so clearly figured in the massacre by a student in Erfurt that the event and the game impacted the race for Chancellor in Germany at the time!

Yet, here you are, five years after "Erfurt," still marketing Counterstrike. having done nothing to disable the server(s) for this mass murder simulator, and it looks like "Virginia Tech" is a consequence. There’s more going on in the world than Vista. Just ask the bereaved Virginia Tech families.

Mr. Gates, pull the plug on Counterstrike today, or do we need more dead to convince you? "Virginia Tech" was the 9-11 of school shootings, and it appears Microsoft is in the middle of it, in more ways than one.

Regards, Jack Thompson
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