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It definitely wasn't like this in the late 90's / early 2000's.
by fallingknife 6y ago
It definitely wasn't like this in the late 90's / early 2000's.
- perl4ever 6y agoApparently outrage died around that time, so it must not be like this now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Death-of-Outrage/William-J-Bennett/9780684864037 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Death-of-Outrage/...
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt was. The late 90s and early 2000s were chock full of moral panic about video games in general and Grand Theft Auto specifically, with speeches about "murder simulators" training our youths to kill being quite common.
- schoen 6y agoFor example, Child's Play was founded as a response to that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(charity)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(charity)#Histo... Jack Thompson was also making news at that time for filing lawsuits over the original Grand Theft Auto game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)#Grand_Theft_Auto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)#Grand... I seem to remember that the Child's Play founders had a particular rivalry or conflict with him over this.
- ceph_ 6y agoThe 90s were the peak of legislators trying to shift blame onto violent videogames and other media. Do you remember the uproar following the release of Mortal Kombat? Or the mini-satanic panic over magic cards?
- msla 6y agoNot to mention the big Satanic Panic over backmasking in music and Dungeons and Dragons and women working outside the house and leaving their kids in Satanic preschools and, before that, the panic over Rock'n'Roll music and, before that, the panic over Jazz and, before that, the panic over the Foxtrot... Come to think of it, there seems to be a panic every time the culture changes.
- abakker 6y agoI mean, in this case, people are panicking even when it stays the same! People are just panicky.