Visually impaired gamer sues Sony Online

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Refusal to implement or facilitate changes to make online games more accessible violates Americans with Disabilities Act, suit claims.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6239339.html?tag=other-user-related-content;1


*shakes head*

The Americans with Disabilities Act states that, "No individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a place of public accommodation."

how low will liberals go?

 

[silverhandorder]

What is so public about SONY servers? This shmuck should drink bleach.

 

[dannno]

I can't stop thinking about The Onion....

I honestly believe that control freaks have absolutely no imagination. They are not able to imagine a scenario in which there "brilliant" legislation can make them look like total retards.

 

[dannno]

What is so public about SONY servers? This shmuck should drink bleach.

What about the people who made the law?

This guy is actually within his "rights" under the "law" as the OP has proven. The game servers are "public" right?

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

What about the people who made the law?

This guy is actually within his "rights" under the "law" as the OP has proven. The game servers are "public" right?

Nope. They are not "public" in the sense that a park is public.

Say I have a house, and Im having a party. I wild sex party. My living room would be the "public room". Everyone at the party is free to use it. The bedrooms are rooms that can be password locked. And if you brought your own car with its own backseat, thats a private server. Even thought I call my living room the "public room", its still a room in my privately owned house.

 

[Solidus]

Nope. They are not "public" in the sense that a park is public.

Say I have a house, and Im having a party. I wild sex party. My living room would be the "public room". Everyone at the party is free to use it. The bedrooms are rooms that can be password locked. And if you brought your own car with its own backseat, thats a private server. Even thought I call my living room the "public room", its still a room in my privately owned house.

I salute this analogy.

 

[dannno]

Nope. They are not "public" in the sense that a park is public.

Say I have a house, and Im having a party. I wild sex party. My living room would be the "public room". Everyone at the party is free to use it. The bedrooms are rooms that can be password locked. And if you brought your own car with its own backseat, thats a private server. Even thought I call my living room the "public room", its still a room in my privately owned house.

It doesn't matter, if you have a restaurant with a room called the "private room", yet can be rented out by customers, then it is open to the public.. even though it is called private, you would still be required by law to make it friendly to those with disabilities.

The idea of these laws (not that I agree with them) is that if you are offering your (private) services to the (public) then your service center becomes a public place because the public is generally allowed there.

Even though businesses put up signs stating that they have the "right to refuse service to anyone", doesn't mean that they actually do (though of course they should be able to), they are by law required to give service to those with disabilities.

With that said, I think we should all have the right to the free sex being given out in Denmark to those attending the Copenhagen conference.