{"id":311,"date":"2007-01-20T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-01-20T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T13:04:24","slug":"is-germany-the-right-country-to-call-for-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/01\/20\/is-germany-the-right-country-to-call-for-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Germany the right Country to call for Censorship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, Germans usually have a very acute sense of history, but history is being entirely forgotten at the moment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/0,1518,460439,00.html\">Many German politicians are lobbying for a ban of &#8220;killer games&#8221;, and trying to lobby the European Union for common regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several school shootings in Germany, and some of the killers have played video games. Isn&#8217;t that sufficient proof? Time to ban those games.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the last school shooting in Denmark was by someone who studied Nordic Literature (yes, just like me). Isn&#8217;t that sufficient proof? Time to ban those books.<\/p>\n<p>If history teaches us anything, it is that censorship is not a good path to go down. It has been put more succinctly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dort, wo man B?cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Know your history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, Germans usually have a very acute sense of history, but history is being entirely forgotten at the moment: Many German politicians are lobbying for a ban of &#8220;killer games&#8221;, and trying to lobby the European Union for common regulations. There have been several school shootings in Germany, and some of the killers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/01\/20\/is-germany-the-right-country-to-call-for-censorship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Germany the right Country to call for Censorship?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}