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Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants Anti-Bullying Tax On Video Games

“Violent video games,” a governmental classification of speech and expression that the Supreme Court found a smidge troubling last June, would be taxed extra under a proposed law in Oklahoma, with the collected money going toward state programs fighting bullying and child obesity. Here we go again.


January 17, 2012
In Real Life

Bullying Online: What’s The Solution?

Kotaku AU

You’re playing League of Legends. You make a slight error. You are now dead and, worse, your team — made up of anonymous players online — is dead. Now they’re angry. A torrent of abuse streams through vent. You are belittled, bullied, all for a simple mistake. In a video game. This is a common scenario, one that is holding back online communities across borders, across formats.

But what can be done? Are we doomed to suffer these trolls, or can developers and communities work together to find a solution?


November 19, 2011
Uncategorized

Skyrim Teaches A 3-Year-Old About Bullying

This 3-year-old girl is about to learn a tough life lesson: Never attack a villager in Skyrim or the guards will come and get you. That or, don’t be a bully. One of those.