>>15506096
>McCarthy
Spent more of his time pointlessly harassing innocents and providing cover for apolitical industry vendettas than actually hunting down spies. An even better comparison to Thompson (or Anita) was Frederick Wertham.
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>>15506118
This. Reminder Thompson peddled the same pseudoscientific "studies" to fuel moral panic about sociopathic behavior in art influencing sociopathic behavior in meatspace. Both are the same flavor of charlatan.
>>15506123
And what was the rhetoric used in speeches by the likes of Tipper, Hillary, and Lieberman? Was it muh soggy knees, muh minority representation? NOPE, it was "muh family values, muh violence, muh sex", almost invariably with Christard overtones. Moreover, regardless of some Democrats voting for such measures, what party were nearly ALL OF the votes against it? Democrats. What about the NGOs? All right-wing groups (mostly churches) invariably supported them, while any and all opposition, such as from the EFF or ACLU, was invariably leftist in nature.
Up until 2007, videogame censorship was reliably a left vs. right issue. In 2007, establishment opinion within the left shifted, but establishment right-wing politics haven't budged. Now the ENTIRE establishment is pro-censorship.