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Jack Thompson removes GTA IV ads in Miami

xsynergyx | 16 days 21 hours ago | News | Misc 
Jack Thompson is at it again, taking away Grand Theft Auto IV ads from Miami bus stops/shelters. Now it has joined Chicago who also has no ads on their bus stops. Jack Thompson ranted that M-rated games should not be viewed by teens at the bus stations. However, ESRB said that this would not be a violation of the Ad Review Council due to the fact that the mass majority of bus riders are adults.
Thompson may be confusing the ESRB ad guidelines with a 2002 report on the marketing of media violence by the Federal Trade Commission which addressed limiting the advertising of M-rated games in media where children constitute a specific percentage of the potential audience. The FTC report notes that the video game industry has a self-regulatory standard prohibiting print ads when children comprise more than 45% of the likely audience.

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  • 0 thumbs!
    Kazooieman | 16 days 21 hours ago
    I wonder what Jack Thompsons going to do when I shoot him. Ban all shooting games?
    • 0 thumbs!
      Final Blade | 16 days 12 hours ago
      Im pretty sure thats a rhetorical question cause If you shoot him, he can't ban anything.
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    chautemoc | 16 days 21 hours ago
    I normally dont say this but, this guy needs to get laid. Bad.
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    DJ Taka | 16 days 21 hours ago
    Lovely, did he also ban all R rated movie promotions? All albums carrying an explicit lyrics warning? Did he ban other M rated game ads as well?

    I mean he wouldn't want to come off like a flaming hypocrite allowing those promotions to exist and yet removing just GTA or games in general. It's ok there Jack we know you're a moron and that you couldn't make a valid objection to save your own life let alone your career.

    There are some days when you'd wish he read things like this, today is one of them. I hope he goes ahead and does some giant censorship raid on games so he can get blasted properly for his double standards and lack of ability to comprehend how pathetic he comes off by using his present vendetta to the extreme so that he'd get booted out of law in Florida.

    Honestly, how this tool practices law is beyond me, I almost wish we had the dark ages again so they'd just lob him in with the crocodiles / giant moat of awful.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Silver Mirror | 16 days 21 hours ago
    I think he needs the opposite, he needs to get raped, maybe then he'll focus on prostitution instead of videogames.

    I wish the judge would hurry up and disbar him, Jack Thompson is getting old fast
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    xsynergyx | 16 days 20 hours ago
    Well, teens go on the internet and what's on the internet? So maybe you should ban the internet, eh? Oh, they deliver newspapers and guess what's in there? Ads. Ban newspapers. Oh no! The mall! Get rid of all malls!

    *bleep*ing idiot.
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    TurMoiL911 | 16 days 20 hours ago
    Wow. An article with "Jack Thompson" and "GTA IV" in the same title ? Isn't going to be the last time we see this on GameGrep, if you ask me.

    Jack Thompson needs to be disbarred fast. His stupidity is an insult to lawyers everywhere.
  • 1 thumbs!
    kik36 | 16 days 18 hours ago
    All of this publicity will sell more games than the actual advertising. LMAO
    • 1 thumbs!
      chautemoc | 16 days 17 hours ago
      Awesome because its probably true.
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    Final Blade | 16 days 12 hours ago
    LMAO i knew he would be involved some how with this game.

    Actually kik is right, all he's doing is actually helping sales than not. Wait if thats the case, Go Jack-O Make those games sell crazy.
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    Avalith | 14 days 21 hours ago
    Jack actually succeeded in something. It's a miracle.

    Too bad he succeeded in something that really doesn't make much of a difference. The bus ads have nothing suggestive or sexual at all and fit perfectly within acceptable content guidelines.

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