lol beyond stupid.
A video game developer is so fucking far from this situation it is laughable; these suits are destined to fail. It’s sad the lawyers are sucking money from the victims’ families.
Odds are a lawyer volunteered for the case in the hopes that Activision will settle just to keep their name away from Uvalde in the news. Families get pennies, lawyer gets a pay day, Activision barely notices.
Defense: millions of other people who played the same game who didn’t choose to shoot anyone in real life.
Culturally, gun manufacturer should bear more responsibility for gun violence, although legally, it’s a difficult argument. But moving the needle is a good thing.
Facebook actually has the least defensible position here, given their record of institutionally repeating and spreading untrue and radicalizing statements.
By adding Activision into the suit, however, the families have pretty much scuttled their own ship before it set sail.
Before anyone rushes to judgement about “suing ‘Call of Duty’”:
Families of the Uvalde victims have filed a lawsuit against Daniel Defense, the makers of the AR-15 assault rifle, and Activision, the publisher of the first-person shooter video game series “Call of Duty,” and Meta, the parent company of Instagram, over what they claim was their role in promoting the gun used in the shooting.
The suit alleges the companies partnered to market the weapon to underage boys in the games and on social media.
They’re alleging the AR-15 maker, activision and meta played a role in aggressively promoting the gun to underage boys. This isn’t ‘video games caused columbine’. Stealth marketing guns to kids is maybe not great. Meta’s whole thing is shady intrusively targeted marketing. Everyone knows that Activision is capable of some truly scummy behaviour. I’m not 100% sold but that it seems worth hearing out to me.
What do you mean. This is exactly the same thing as violent video games caused calumbine
This is just grasping at straws.
Before video games we were blaming rock music and Marilyn Manson for violence. This is just stupid. The only ones guilty here are the perpetrators and the society that failed to catch them falling in between the cracks and gave them easy access to firearms. There have always been people with murderous aspirations and always will be. The weapon of choise is just a tool and a force multiplyer. They likely would have used a tactical nuke if they had access to one. They didn’t so an assault rifle was the next best choise. Focusing on AR-15 is ridiculous. They’ll use what ever the best thing is they have access to.
On the other hand, CoD is just U.S. Army recruitment propaganda, so fuck it.
Before video games we were blaming rock music and Marilyn Manson for violence.
Marilyn Manson’s first song was released in 1992.
Video games were being blamed for violence by that time, and there was even a congressional hearing on the topic of video games and violence in 93-94.
Focusing on AR-15 is ridiculous. They’ll use what ever the best thing is they have access to.
No, because an AR-15 was used in this specific case, and these specific companies were involved in making and aggressively marketing this specific gun to the specific person who used it to kill these people.
This isn’t a “Marilyn Manson/video games/anything-but-guns is the real reason” type argument.
These specific companies’ obviously dangerous practice of marketing guns to teenaged boys contributed to the events at Uvalde, or so the suit alleges.
It’s an argument worth hearing the details of before judging.
Call of Duty? REALLY? The other two are maybe something (still seems like grasping at straws) but a video game?
My heart goes out to the families for what they went through but this doesn’t seem like it solves anything…
Look, I actually agree with going after weapons manufacturers, and I can understand suing social media companies for the way their algorithms steer people to radicalism but keep your god damned hands off my video games.
Too much time shooting in videogames so at some point some of them start wanting to shot real people… Seems plausible.
