Gitmo Video Game Pulled by Makers
A video game set at Guantanamo Bay, and made with the help of a former Gitmo detainee, has been pulled by developer T-Enterprise, read a statement posted to its Web site today.
The game, 'Rendition Guantanamo,' was set to come out later this Fall, but, due to extreme reactions and controversy, the company has decided to not release the game at all.
As profiled in a recent CBS News article, 'Rendition: Guantanamo,' was set in the near future, after the compound had been closed by the U.S. Government and taken over by mercenaries who kidnapped the innocent for scientific experiments. The game was designed with the help of Moazzam Begg, a British Muslim who was detained at Guantanamo Bay for three years until he was released in 2005. Begg was brought on by the Glasgow-based company as a consultant to assist with the layout of the virtual Gitmo.
Director of T-Enterprise, Zarrar Chisti has released a letter stressing that major misconceptions about the game fueled the backlash. According to his letter, the main character of the game was not Moazzam Begg, it did not feature the killings of any American or British military, it was not designed to be propaganda or to glamorize terrorism, and it was not a recruiting tool of any kind.
Because of such accusations, from Web sites like KFox and Sweetness & Light, T-Enterprise has stopped production stating, "[As] a direct result of the extreme reaction that the game and its popular misconceptions have provoked, T-Enterprise has decided to pull out of the project and will not be completing 'Rendition: Guantanamo.'" [From RenditionGuantanamo and CBS]
Banned Facebook Groups
Facebook is a great venue for humiliating oneself with ranting and raving, but, like most things, people can take things too far. Give someone a soapbox (or in this case, a Facebook group) and there are sure to be others crazy enough to follow them. Here are some examples of Facebook groups that crossed the line and were banned from the site.
Assasinate Evo Morales
Here's a good way to get your group banned -- call for the assassination of a political leader. Titled 'Global Collection to Hire a Sharpshooter to Liquidate Evo Morales' was taken down by Facebook since it bans threatening violence. No surprises here.
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Surrey, BC Terrorist Group
A Facebook group supporting the International Sikh Youth Federation, a banned terrorist organization, was taken down by Canadian Police. Authorities were tipped off to the group because its page depicted a young person holding a prohibited gun, which was eventually traced back to 49-year old Bahadur Sandhur. Police seized it and two others when they investigated his home.
Dead Babies Group
Facebook took down a group called 'Dead Babies Make Me Laugh' after the UK Sun was flooded with outraged calls and emails. A running joke on campuses, the group included fake anecdotes about killing babies, but mothers weren't laughing even though the group was created and classified as being "just for fun."
I Need Sex Group
Laura Michaels of Bristol, England, created a Facebook group called 'I Need Sex.' According to the UK Sun, the group had more than 100 members after being up for only one hour. Michaels claims to have ended up sleeping with 50 of the group's members -- literally half of the group. Facebook opposes this type of personals-ad use, so the group was taken down.
KKK group
Facebook recently shut down a group called the 'Isle of Man KKK.' The group called for the elimination of newcomers from the UK island and featured a picture of a hooded Ku Klux Klan member. Thankfully, Facebook's terms of service prohibits content that is hateful or threatening.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
OG Loc said 6:22AM on 6-04-2009
I would have bought that game. So would three of my friends.
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FOURDOGSLAUGHING said 6:42AM on 6-04-2009
HEY OG, U ONLY HAVE THREE FRIENDS ???
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jdl7117 said 8:48AM on 6-04-2009
It's a damn game. Jeez, if your are against it don't buy it. I don't agree with a lot of things, but if it's not hurting me or my family, then I don't see the point in raising a stink about it. People who protest games and entertainment in general should pull the plug from their butts, and relax.
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Steve said 5:42PM on 6-04-2009
I feel they should release it. I mean its just a game who cares. Tell me what the diffrence is between this and COD besides this just has a prison when COD has terrorists in it and turn out to be one of the biggest game titles around. People quit being so controling over everybody. If you dont like it and dont want it in your house or your kids playing it heres a simply solution DONT BUY IT.
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Oooooooo! Be careful about the subliminal messages that can absoLUTEly affect players.
barbara said 12:58PM on 6-04-2009
And so you know that something like that absolutely won't cause you or yours any harm? You obviously weren't around when buildings came down around our ears...I was. Anything that even hints at glamorizing the beliefs that caused that is harmful...even if you are too dense or selfish to realize it.
joe said 6:10PM on 6-04-2009
hey barbara....
I bet your the type of person that has your kids wear helmets while they play on a playground. People like you are turning our culture into a bunch of pansies that will have no experiance with real life. Just what you wish life was and thus we will have more young that can not deal with situations. Pay attention to all the kids coming out of college and the teenagers working in stores they have no real experiance at all just book smarts that are out dated and expect everything handed to them because thats what they have been given. I'm proud to be a young adult with lots of experiance from real world situations. For instance I played alot of driving games when I was younger, then I got my license and I was able to undeerstand over and under steering in skids from knowing how a vehicle will respond. Now that dosen't mean that I'm driving pedal to the metal when ever I hit the road, in fact I'm a much more aware driver and my driving instructor didn't require me to finish the courses because she knew I was aware of what I was doing.
Bottom line: kids are not influenced by video games, they are left astray by their parents that want to pad their lives and don't teach them responsibility.
george said 9:55AM on 6-04-2009
Amazing that it got that far. Who ARE these sub human perverted cretins that come up with this crap?
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winfl55 said 9:58AM on 6-04-2009
jdl7117 said 8:48AM on 6-04-2009
It's a damn game. Jeez, if your are against it don't buy it. I don't agree with a lot of things, but if it's not hurting me or my family, then I don't see the point in raising a stink about it. People who protest games and entertainment in general should pull the plug from their butts, and relax.
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So, what you are saying is it would be ok for your kids to play it, if you have any, or your wife, if you have one.
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jdl7117 said 1:44PM on 6-04-2009
No, I would not let my kids play this game, but as their parent that is my right. It however is not the right for you or anyone else to tell me that I (as an adult) do not have the right to buy this game.
don cross said 10:40AM on 6-04-2009
I wonder if the revision will come out? It is called "Rendition Guantanamobama". In this new version, the terrorists go through a series of levels of being nice and saying the right things to obtain a release. To obtain release in the US. They then reorganize and kill Americans of all sorts in all sorts of ways. The game ends when the terrorists are successful in blowing up the White House.
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againsowhat said 10:39AM on 6-04-2009
Well jdl7117 about 10 or 20 years ago there was a video game about general Custer.
the goal of the game was for the Custer avatar to run around and rape as many Indian women as possible.
That game was also pulled, after protests and not one liberal back then said anything like
"But it's only a game, if you don't like it don't play it".
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nickdwiggins4 said 10:55AM on 6-04-2009
I feel they should release it. Who cares it is just a game whats the diffrence between this and COD nothing except this has a prison when COD actually has terrorists and it turns out to be one of the most popular games on the market. People need to quit being so controling. If you dont want it in your house or let your kids play it. Theres a simply solution DONT BUY IT.
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nickdwiggins4 said 11:07AM on 6-04-2009
I feel they should release it. I mean its just a game who cares. Tell me what the diffrence is between this and COD besides this just has a prison when COD has terrorists in it and turn out to be one of the biggest game titles around. People quit being so controling over everybody. If you dont like it and dont want it in your house or your kids playing it heres a simply solution DONT BUY IT.
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Whatsinaname said 11:20AM on 6-04-2009
Winfl55-
No, I wouldn't let my kids play it, but I agree with jdl.
It's a game, no one told you to play it. If Your Kids play it, fine, as long as they know that you can't do those things in the real world, and that it's wrong to do those things in real life.
They should know that.
Comprende?
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mike said 12:43PM on 6-04-2009
More whining from the ever-wimpy, wussie, neo-connies who get their panties in an uproar over just about anything these days. The game hasn't even got anything to do with the current reality of Gitmo (a U.S.-run concentration camp) and is pure futuristic fantasy. But, our ever-wimpy, wussie, neo-connies start crying like the blubbering babies they are and screaming at the top of their lungs (amplified by their media master/minders) and just like that! Everybody caves in to their bratty little tantrum. Too bad the makers of this game didn't have more guts to tell the neo-connies to STFU.
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Green Hills said 12:52PM on 6-04-2009
Shame it wasn't you who was standing where I was when those buildings came down...then I'd ask you how soon you were going to get over it...
caanimal3008 said 12:47PM on 6-04-2009
How stupid are people? It never secess to amaze me at the level of stupidity out in the world today... This was NOT a game about terrists, this was NOT a game about what is currently going on at Getmo, this was NOT a game about harming anyone other then the fiction "bad guys" within the game and ONLY the game... I wish people would pull their head out of their arses and stop w/ the over reacting to ever little thing. Get a clue, the bay in which Getmo is located was name Guantanamo Bay WAY before the US ever got there. It's a shame that such a promising game, from what I was able to read about the game, had to be pulled because of the dumbarses out there speaking out their arses before getting any kind of details about the game. The hight of stupidity of people never stops to boggle my mind. Fair well to what could have been a good game where you break out of a prison used for scientific experiamentation on people and take down those responsable for them. Perhaps they will rename it and still release it, I doubt anyone would have any complaints if this was named something fictional.
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Green Hills said 12:55PM on 6-04-2009
Where the hell is "Getmo" ... never heard of it ... if you are going to reprimand people, then it would behoove you to learn how to at least spell and be somewhat coherent...instead of reading like an uneducated goon.
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mike said 1:15PM on 6-04-2009
Actually, it's "writing" not "reading". And, which buildings are you talking about? If it's about the WTC circa 9/11, I was there, horrified like everybody else. I doubt if you were. Only a neo-connie wussie tussie would make a dumb*ss comment like that. BTW, I DID get over it. That's why when neo-connies start their whining over a stupid video game, everybody wants to tell you *ssholes to STFU (which the majority seems to be doing here today)!
Green Hills said 5:01PM on 6-04-2009
Actually Mike, the comment to which you replied was not addressed to you. But for the record...you are wrong...I was in 5 coming out of the PATH...and since you say you were there, you know exactly where I was.
And my grammar was correct...you're interpretation of my meaning wasn't.