{"id":12494,"date":"2011-12-09T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12494"},"modified":"2018-09-08T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:01:02","slug":"600-million-virtual-war-criminals-to-be-snagged-in-new-virtual-geneva-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/600-million-virtual-war-criminals-to-be-snagged-in-new-virtual-geneva-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"600 million &#8220;virtual war criminals&#8221; to be snagged in new virtual Geneva Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look out FPS gamers &mdash; the Red Cross <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.com\/2011\/12\/09\/red_cross_organisation_worried_by_videogame_violation_of_humanitarian_laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">has you in their sights<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Move aside, Milosevic. Out of the way, al-Bashir. It&#8217;s the world&#8217;s videogamers who should be hauled up on war crimes charges, some members of the Red Cross seem to think.<\/p>\n<p>During the 31st International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, which took place in Geneva last week, attendees were asked to consider what response the organisations should make to the untold zillions of deaths that can be laid at the feet of videogamers.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>There is &#8220;an audience of approximately 600 million gamers who may be virtually violating international humanitarian law (IHL),&#8221; it noted.<\/p>\n<p>The key word there, folks, is &#8216;virtually&#8217;. Ruthlessly gunning down civilians, fellow combatants and\/or extraterrestrial visitors may be a crime if you do it for real, but not if you merely imagine the action, even if helped by the realistic visuals of the likes of <em>Battlefield 3<\/em> and <em>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look out FPS gamers &mdash; the Red Cross has you in their sights: Move aside, Milosevic. Out of the way, al-Bashir. It&#8217;s the world&#8217;s videogamers who should be hauled up on war crimes charges, some members of the Red Cross seem to think. During the 31st International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,15],"tags":[52,791,92,1228,623],"class_list":["post-12494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-media","category-technology","tag-absurd","tag-genevaconventions","tag-software","tag-warcrimes","tag-wargames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44829,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494\/revisions\/44829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}