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Submission + - Valkyrie: Germany Stifles Free Speech

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WED Fan

on Monday June 25, 2007 @01:41PM

WED Fan writes: "Love him, or hate his "religion"/religion, Tom Cruise is about to make a movie about an important part of WWII history, and the Germans are stopping him.

Defence Ministry spokesman Harald Kammerbauer said the film makers "will not be allowed to film at German military sites if Count Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise, who has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult".

As much as Scientology is controversial, this is much like saying, "Spielberg can't make a movie as long as he a jew."

Submission + - AMA Considers a New Addiction: Video Games (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by on Monday June 25, 2007 @10:09AM

An anonymous reader writes: The American Medical Association is voting this week on whether video game additction should be added to their list of psychiatric illnesses. What's particularly irksome, is that the people involved in the debate don't seem terribly knowledgeable about the games themselves. As Erica Naone notes in MIT's Technology Review, if anyone who games for more than two hours at a time is considered an addict, then anyone who wants to get ahead in an MMORPG has psychiatric issues. Moreover, the AMA states that online relationships aren't real — which only further emphasizes there lack of udnerstanding about massively multiplayer games.

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