Quote Originally Posted by 'Kissell13',index.php?page=Thread&postID=59188#pos t59188
The article was written by the creator of the first MUD. Basically the forerunners for MMO's.
For the record, I know what a MUD is, I played various MUDs, LPMUDs, TinyMUDs, MUSHes, etc.

It is kind of a rant but the points do hit home. He is basically stating that all the old people that run the govt at the moment do not sympathise (sp) with gamers because they were not gamers themselves. The next upcoming generation of government elected officials are going to be of the age that they most likely grew up gaming. This leads them to realize that most of the banning and bad press about games floating around is purely misinformed babble.
There is no mention in the article about any specific bannings or bad press. The article sets the tone that the gaming community as a whole is at odds with the decisions of the government and that the gamers win because the gaming generation is coming of age.

1st of all, he makes the assumption all gamers share his point of view, whatever it is. He also assumes that the majority of people grew up playing games. Most of my friends/family don't play beyond the freecell/solitaire/minesweeper/tetris style games. I hardly think that playing tetris and pacman as a child changed your entire stance on censorship.

2nd, he uses the Tanya Byron report to somehow justify his views (whatever they are) while I don't think the report does anything of the kind.

The one issue I think he might be going on about is: Violence in games cause violent behaviour in children.
This is a heavily debated and researched topic and there is no significant proof either way. There is a big section on it inside the Tanya Byron report that is well worth reading. The US has that nutjob who has this crusade against games but anyone who takes him seriously need to lay off the drugs.

From his ranting it sounds like the government wanted to ban games and was looking for the Tanya Byron report to justify such a course of action, he does not give any details in his rant so as far as I can tell it is just rantings.