Virginian Teen Suspended over Names in 'Death Note'

[NewsBot]

Despite school's concern, fellow students are said not to be worried

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[Kijame]

sometimes they go way overboard... both students and the school...

makes me think of the whole "videogames make violent"-discussion...
better get rid of aggression and frustration virtual than in reality...

then again, if I had a DN book I'd keep it secret ^_^

[whiteday26]

Death Note is just a childish concept, that is explored in a mature way.
It's just a black list, if you think about it. If you think of it this way, Jigoku Shoujo could also be mentioned. Too bad in that anime, you have to go to hell with them. -.- Media sucks, they couldn't blame the local society that made people go that way, so they blame it on foreign materials.

[Anon-sama]

Rofl, this shows how paranoid and retarded goverments really are.

[EPDJ]

Originally Posted by Galgalid

Rofl, this shows how paranoid and retarded goverments really are.

Edit:
"The Franklin Military Academy in Richmond, Virginia suspended a senior this week for having a list of his classmates' names in a book called "Death Note," a reference to the Japanese suspense manga and anime of the same name. Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ooba created this story about a boy who finds a [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]notebook[/COLOR][/COLOR], in which he can proscribe people to death by writing their names."

Well, none of this has to do with any government... it is the academy that banned the book and suspended this kid. I have no idea whether china/taiwan have governmental bans pertaining to this in their schools.. but I would suspect that they would let the school system there deal with it.

Either way, I find this incident completely stupid..