{"id":439,"date":"2006-12-13T00:21:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T05:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-legal-news\/proposed-german-laws-target-virtual-violence\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T12:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:16:53","slug":"proposed-german-laws-target-virtual-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-legal-news\/proposed-german-laws-target-virtual-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed German Laws Target Virtual Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, some German politicians are seeking to criminalize virtual violence in video games with laws aimed at punishing game creators and players.<\/p>\n<p>From arstechnica.com &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Players and creators of video games could face imprisonment for acts of virtual violence under draft legislation being drawn up by two of Germany&#8217;s state governments.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians in Bavaria and Lower Saxony have proposed a new offence that will punish &#8220;cruel violence on humans or human-looking characters&#8221; inside games. Early drafts suggest that infringers should face fines or up to 12 months&#8217; jail for promoting or enacting in-game violence.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme comes in response to a shooting last month in the town of Emsdetten on the Dutch border, where Sebastian Bosse, an 18-year-old games fan, stormed into his former school and wounded 37 people before killing himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,1969921,00.html\">German gamers face jail for acts of virtual violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, some German politicians are seeking to criminalize virtual violence in video games with laws aimed at punishing game creators and players. From arstechnica.com &#8212; Players and creators of video games could face imprisonment for acts of virtual violence under draft legislation being drawn up by two of Germany&#8217;s state governments. Politicians [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-legal-news\/proposed-german-laws-target-virtual-violence\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Proposed German Laws Target Virtual Violence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-legal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}