The longer we are in this war the most bees we are stirring up. Let's just get out and try to make friends.

Well said! It is a shame this article didn't receive more comments.

Why post a poll exclusively for Blizzard? Blizzard can do their own marketing research. Besides, everyone knows Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to pwn anyway ;)

My friend,

You are right to criticize many of our pessimistic views, but I think you are neglecting to reflect on the integrated nature of censorship. Look at existing systems we have available and how they have been misused, and now we shouldn't be critical of giving them a new toy because it has been ideologically white washed into something easily digested?

Even if we are to trust our government, there are so many factions and so much bureaucracy that many times the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing. Who is to say that this technology will not be misused in the future? Why wait for the bud to blossom when you can pull it up from the roots?

Politicians are supposed to be the tools of the people, to give the government too much control is to offset the balance of power set aside for each party within the social contract and be counter productive to democracy and civil rights. What is more American than that?

My good friend, the same thing is happening over here :(

Police raided a gay bar in Texas, on the basis of public intoxication...on the very anniversary of the police raiding a gaybar in New York! One of them is even in the hospital because 'his brain is bleeding'.

I shit you not sir.

A problem we have here in Washington is something like 5000 people a year die of drug over doses. Much of the time, someone could of called it in but were afraid of being prosecuted for the drugs (heroin and meth usually). Members of our legislature are trying to make it so only people who provide or sell the drugs can be prosecuted.

You are partly correct, but I want to believe that exploiting individuals will only justify the security theatre in most people's minds. If people hacked with 'integrity', then their activities would not lend themselves to exageration and manipulation by the press and the government.

For every dollar stolen there is ten being given to some other corp to secure their systems, fear mongering laws and your tax money being spent.

From Wikipedia: Game design is the process of designing the content and rules of a game. The term is also used to describe both the game design embodied in an actual game as well as documentation that describes such a design. I think you are confusing game design with game programming. If you are designing the game, then you would be in charge of coordinating with the programming team (not actually programming). First you should develop a clear image of what you actually wish to do :)