[TuringTest]

> A man that (if you bother to read up on what he is up to now) doesn't even believe any of the shit he said back then and actually apologised for it.

Can you provide a pointer to that? I haven't found anything in that regard, either at Wikipedia nor searching at news sites.

[ionised]

I'm struggling to find the exact article I read (and Wikipedia is light on info about him for some reason) but it was an interview with Thompson himself about where he is and what he is doing now.

He is teaching prisoners civics in Florida now after suffering major stress/depression and marriage problems resulting from his crusade. He went into how the whole thing started because stores were selling violent games to under-age kids and even parents were buying them and that's what he took issue with.

Based on his medical background and knowledge of how entertainment affects the brain he believed that kids that young and also the mentally disabled should not have access to violent games, but because he was beaten in court (multiple times) he began to make tenuous links everywhere between violence and games, music and movies and began behaving very legally dubious in pursuing his cases like a fanatic to the point where he was calling for all-out bans and ridiculous punishments.

He was eventually disbarred and went through a few years of trying not to be such an angry asshole.

From the way the article ended it seemed like he had gone through a positive transformation.