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A press representative from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) has issued a statement denying that the GDC invited anti-video game attorney Jack Thompson to speak at GDC 2008. Thompson claimed in a recent court filing that he would be present at this year's GDC for a debate similar to the one he had with Lorne Lanning at VGXPO.
According to GamePolitics, contrary to what Thompson claimed in his court filing, GDC director Jamil Molendina was not in attendance at VGXPO. Thompson did, however, speak to video game composer Tommy Tallarico. GamePolitics surmises that Thompson was actually referring to Tallarico when he said he met "the man who organizes" GDC. Tallarico is on the GDC's main advisory board.
After the Thompson-Lanning debate, Tallarico, Lanning and Spencer Halpin reportedly discussed the possibility of having a similar debate at GDC 2008. Tallarico told GamePolitics that he never spoke to Thompson personally, but that Halpin's wife, one of VGXPO's organizers, spoke to Thompson by phone about the debate. Tallarico was about to present the idea before the GDC board when the story broke.
GamePolitics also reports that Thompson has written a letter to GDC director Jamil Molendina, claiming that the video game industry "lies about the ratings on its products, sells those products to underage kids behind their parents' backs, and then wants nothing but an incestuous gathering in San Francisco to congratulate itself on how smart it is."
With all of this controversy, the possibility of a debate with Jack Thompson at GDC 2008 seems a dead one.
Via GamePolitics
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Who would want him there? It's not like JT would have anything intelligent to add to the discussion.
ya i mean that was a bad move man trying to get a invite to GDC plus if he did get in lots of people will be ticked off at him
He'd be literally "chewed" and spitted out by alot of gaming fans. In the Nintendo, SONY and Microsoft category of gaming. Plus the E-M category.
Thompson would have a better time going after the music industry. There's far more evil intent, exploitation and circle-jerking going on there.
GG Jack, you dullwit.
It would be like inviting Hitler to a bar mitzvah.