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Facebook pressure group takes off.
Labour MP Tom Watson believes a Facebook 'pressure group' he created for gamers could be "a game-changing move for Parliament" - after being "incensed" by remarks made by fellow MP Keith Vaz on the violent content of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2.
'Gamers' Voice', created this morning "to discuss how UK video gamers can find their voice in newspapers and government", recruited hundreds of members following Watson's earlier defence of the UK games industry in the House of Commons.
Speaking after the Culture, Media and Sports Questions session, Watson, MP for West Bromwich East, told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz: "I've thought about [creating a group] for a while, but I was so incensed by yet another Daily Mail article that I just pinged it up there to gauge reaction. And frankly, 400 people in what, four hours, I've been slightly taken aback by it." The group had over 5,500 members at the time of publication.
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Labour MP Tom Watson believes a Facebook 'pressure group' he created for gamers could be "a game-changing move for Parliament" - after being "incensed" by remarks made by fellow MP Keith Vaz on the violent content of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2.
'Gamers' Voice', created this morning "to discuss how UK video gamers can find their voice in newspapers and government", recruited hundreds of members following Watson's earlier defence of the UK games industry in the House of Commons.
Speaking after the Culture, Media and Sports Questions session, Watson, MP for West Bromwich East, told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz: "I've thought about [creating a group] for a while, but I was so incensed by yet another Daily Mail article that I just pinged it up there to gauge reaction. And frankly, 400 people in what, four hours, I've been slightly taken aback by it." The group had over 5,500 members at the time of publication.
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