The collective lobby of video game makers, known on the streets as the Entertainment Software Association, represents the industry as a whole. What they support, gaming supports. Recently, the ESA has thrown their weight behind SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that will destroy the internet if passed. SOPA must not pass. SOPA must be crushed, ground into the dirt, and the shame of its defeat must be so total that it stains those who endorsed it for a thousand generations. This is me being serious. As one of those who endorses this attack on the internet and all free speech is the ESA, well… VentureBeat has the story.
SOPA delenda est.
But Carthage first.
Sigh, ESA, we’re really, really disappointed in you. As gamers, we’ve gone to bat for you on numerous occasions involving censorship such as Brown v. EMA which would have subjected video games in California to untoward bans — and now you go and do this?