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Save Resistance: Fall Of Man In The United Kingdom
Published by Stephen Carr on Jun 09, 2007
Closed on Jun 23, 2007
Closed on Jun 23, 2007
12 Signatures 
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Target: British Government
Region: United Kingdom
Result:
This petition is closed.
Background (Preamble):
Recently, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has been under fire from the Church Of England for featuring Manchester Cathedral in one of their Playstation 3 games "Resistance: Fall Of Man".
The Church Of England has threatened legal action unless something is done to solve the problem, the simplest one being the removal of the game from the shelves. The reason they are doing this is because they believe it to be insensitive to feature Manchester Cathedral because of gun crime in the city of Manchester.
Personally, I feel this is an unfair justification, considering how many movies, books, television programmes and other forms of entertainment show the same (or worse) degree of violence or unacceptable content in other, equally crime-filled, cities around the world. I myself am a Catholic but think videogames earn unfair prejudice when it comes to more "adult content".
The Church Of England has threatened legal action unless something is done to solve the problem, the simplest one being the removal of the game from the shelves. The reason they are doing this is because they believe it to be insensitive to feature Manchester Cathedral because of gun crime in the city of Manchester.
Personally, I feel this is an unfair justification, considering how many movies, books, television programmes and other forms of entertainment show the same (or worse) degree of violence or unacceptable content in other, equally crime-filled, cities around the world. I myself am a Catholic but think videogames earn unfair prejudice when it comes to more "adult content".
Petition:
We, the undersigned, call on the British Government to intervene should Sony be ordered to remove copies of Resistance: Fall Of Man from store shelves.
The Save Resistance: Fall Of Man In The United Kingdom petition to British Government was written by Stephen Carr and is in the category Gaming at GoPetition. Contact author here. Petition tags: sony, playstation, video, game, videogame, resistance, violent
