Jack Thompson files BioShock ad complaint with FTC
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Aug 19th 2007 1:10PM
Attorney
Jack Thompson has sent a complaint letter to the Federal Trade Commission for
BioShock advertisements aired during Friday night's WWE Smackdown. GamePolitics has the
full complaint from Thompson, a portion of it states: "Take-Two... is aggressively marketing its newest Mature-rated video game to kids under 17 years of age... On this Friday's night's 8 pm Eastern time airing of WWE's wrestling program "Smackdown," there were repeated ads for Take-Two/Rockstar Game's Mature-rated, incredibly violent
BioShock ... This rampant fraudulent trade practice is precisely what 'Big Tobacco' did with its 'Joe Camel' and other teen-targeting ads, while at the same time lying to Congress that it was not marketing its adult product to kids."
Hey, we had no idea Rockstar had anything to do with
BioShock ... oh wait, that's right, they didn't. The FTC has already stated they think the industry is doing a
relatively fine job handling itself; however, the FTC does say the movie and video game industry are both guilty of marketing R and M rated content during shows with inappropriate demographics. That's all good and fine of course, but we're just way too busy bathing in the irony of a FTC violence complaint being brought upon the airing of
BioShock ads during an episode of WWE Smackdown.
