Legal Niches

Gamer Offers Counterpoint to Girl against RapeLay

By pete_gallagher

In response to last week's story by Charleston, South Carolina's News 2 on a 14-year old girl who started petitions against the game RapeLay, a local gamer called the station and offered a point of view on the dangers of banning any games.

While he empathized with the plight of Elena Lyons, thirty-two year old Dondi Wiggins took issue with the banning of any game, saying that gamers, '…should have the right to decide for ourselves' what to play.

Wiggins, President of a local gaming group called Lowcountry Anime and Gaming (a group that is a chapter of the Entertainment Consumer Association [ECA]), said that he personally would not play Rapelay.

Wiggins added, 'I don't think video games should be banned.  I think we as gamers should decide what we want to play as an adult.  We have free speech.'

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).