Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Thu, 28 May 2009 08:44:00 PDT Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090527/0335425026.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090527/0335425026.shtml stabbed his 5-month-old brother with a knife. It sounds like he didn't do much damage, but police immediately claimed that violent video games owned by a much older teenaged brother "may have played a role." The only problem? The 2-year-old neither plays the games nor watches his older brother playing them. But, why not blame the video games?

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]]> evidence? http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20090527/0335425026 Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:12:15 PDT Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080702/1047051574.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080702/1047051574.shtml governments pushing for laws that require ISPs to block "objectionable" content, it's not hard to come up with scenarios where that will backfire. Of course, who needs to come up with fictional scenarios when reality will serve up examples on its own. Over in Japan, some mentally disturbed individual used the web to detail how he planned to stab a bunch of people. After he carried out the stabbings, rather than focusing on how such sites can be useful in stopping homicidal maniacs before they kill, the Japanese are focusing on figuring out how they can block such content as "objectionable" so that people can't see it. Is common sense dead? How could it possibly make sense to try to hide the fact that someone is confessing to the crimes they plan to commit before they commit them?

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