{"id":483,"date":"2006-03-09T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T20:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/03\/no-cov-in-tennessee-it-seems\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T20:56:44","slug":"no-cov-in-tennessee-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/03\/no-cov-in-tennessee-it-seems.html","title":{"rendered":"No CoV in Tennessee, it seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, for that matter, no CoH in Tennessee, either,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wate.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4604409&#038;nav=0RYv\" target=\"_blank\"> if a certain state senator there has his way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State Sen. Tommy Kilby of Wartburg has proposed a bill making it a misdemeanor for stores to sell or rent violent video games to anyone.<br \/>\nKilby says he put the bill together after getting feedback from concerned parents and law enforcement officials.<br \/>\nThe bill states games depicting violence against anyone including authority figures, such as police, should be outlawed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So no more taking out RIPs on Mercy Island, I guess.  Or seeing villains beating on cops in the Hollows.<br \/>\nHeck, what qualifies as an authority figure?  How about the bad guys who &#8220;rule&#8221; in other Portal Corp-accessed dimension?  Can I still actually try to take down Psychic Babbage?  How about assaulting Arachnos agents when we&#8217;re ostensibly in Rogue Isles territory (as a hero or a villain)?<br \/>\nAre the bosses in the Circle of Thorns religious leaders?  Do they qualify?  Are we going to run into trouble with anti-hate laws, too?<br \/>\nOr, for that matter &#8212; as super-heroes, are we heroes considered authority figures, too?  If we&#8217;re deputized in some fashion, I&#8217;d think so. Does this mean that all the villains will have to be nerfed to scream and run away?<br \/>\nShort of that, will I get in trouble if I take my CoH-loaded notebook to our Oak Ridge or Tullahoma offices?<br \/>\nGoofy.<br \/>\n<small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/senator_in_tennessee_wants_to_ban_violent_video_games_for_everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, for that matter, no CoH in Tennessee, either, if a certain state senator there has his way. State Sen. Tommy Kilby of Wartburg has proposed a bill making it a misdemeanor for stores to sell or rent violent video games to anyone. Kilby says he put the bill together after getting feedback from concerned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/03\/no-cov-in-tennessee-it-seems.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No CoV in Tennessee, it seems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}