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Old 02-16-2006, 06:44 AM   #1
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Sex workers boycott Grand Theft Auto.
US organisation the Sex Workers Outreach Project has issued a statement condemning the way sex workers are represented in Rockstar's GTA: San Andreas - asking parents and gamers to boycott the title.

According to the statement, which was published on the SWOP-USA website, the organisation "will always be adamantly opposed to any and all forms of censorship." However, "As concerned parents ourselves, we wish to inform other parents of the potential danger extremely violent videogames pose to children."

SWOP-USA was established with the aim of improving the lives of sex workers, promoting their safety and campaigning for their rights. The organisation is opposed to "any media which represents sex workers as legitimate targets of violence rape and murder." In GTA, players can kill sex workers, along with many other characters, and the game's storyline refers to the rape of a prostitute.

"Censorship is a blight on the freedoms we hold dear but we wholeheartedly encourage citizens to vote with their dollars by refusing to purchase products which encourage the denigration and destruction of prostitutes," the statement continues.

"Since the video game Grand Theft Auto accrues points to players for the depiction of the rape and murder of prostitutes, SWOP-USA calls on all parents and all gamers to boycott Grand Theft Auto."

SWOP-USA quotes research commissioned by the National Institute of Media and the Family which claims that three high profile medical institutes have "concluded that the scientific evidence shows a cause-effect relationship between television violence and aggression among the children and youth who watch it."

According to the research, children are almost 10 times more likely to have taken part in a physical fight if they regularly play videogames with violent content. There is said to be "a strong correlation between exposure to violent video games and various forms of antisocial behavior.”


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Old 02-16-2006, 07:12 AM   #2
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Old 02-16-2006, 05:10 PM   #3
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I wonder what's worse, fighting for a hooker's rights or being a hooker.
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Old 02-16-2006, 05:45 PM   #4
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Since when was raping a prostitute part of the San Andreas storyline?

I really cannot remember it.
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Old 02-16-2006, 05:51 PM   #5
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Just when you thought GTA had offended everyone...

I actually just rented the "Special Edition" this week (and had to start over, 'cause it didn't recognize my pre-censor save file) and had forgotten how amazing this game is. Only been playing for a couple of days, and already covered pretty much every square inch of CJ with ink, worked stamina to the max, and am pretty close to maxing out muscle. Got me a big, scary dude.
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Old 02-16-2006, 08:41 PM   #7
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Old 02-16-2006, 11:56 PM   #10
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Not AS LOL, but still. Stockholders are suing because the controversy hurt their stock.
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Old 02-17-2006, 12:05 AM   #11
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Since when was raping a prostitute part of the San Andreas storyline?

I really cannot remember it.
It's not the first time that people made up stuff to make GTA seem big and evil. On some UK news show they interviewed 6 year olds and asked them what GTA was about and some little girl said stuff like "The point of the game is to kill as many people as you can before a policeman kills you and get lots and lots of points!" then the interviewer asks "Do you like the game?" and the girl keeps looking off screen, obviously reading something or looking at someone to see what to say and says "Uh..no cos..it makes me sad" she probably has no clue what GTA is. It was an hour of bad mouthing both GTA and Manhunt and 98% of it was totally made up.

Oh, and there was a part where they let the 6 year old play GTA in the background as the host narrated about its evilness.
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It's not the first time that people made up stuff to make GTA seem big and evil. On some UK news show they interviewed 6 year olds and asked them what GTA was about and some little girl said stuff like "The point of the game is to kill as many people as you can before a policeman kills you and get lots and lots of points!" then the interviewer asks "Do you like the game?" and the girl keeps looking off screen, obviously reading something or looking at someone to see what to say and says "Uh..no cos..it makes me sad" she probably has no clue what GTA is. It was an hour of bad mouthing both GTA and Manhunt and 98% of it was totally made up.
Or as Americans call it...Fair and Balanced reporting.
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Old 02-17-2006, 12:47 AM   #14
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Since when was raping a prostitute part of the San Andreas storyline?

I really cannot remember it.
i think there's that jizzy mission where you have ot go kill the johns or whatever, but yeah.
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Old 02-17-2006, 04:35 AM   #16
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Or as Americans call it...Fair and Balanced reporting.
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Old 02-17-2006, 04:43 AM   #17
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So hookers are complaing about GTA?
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really? I used to do it all the time, then i read the manual and realized that wasnt where the plug went. Silly me.
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