I just posted this comment on a TechCrunch article:
Heh, funny story. Back sometime in 2003 I think, a group of us made a game where you could box George W. It got virally distributed to about 100,000 people or so just by email. After a few weeks the fricking CIA called us!We thought it was a joke, but looked up the agent in charge and sure enough she was in the Seattle HQ for the CIA, the same phone number and all. They made it pretty clear that it would be “trouble” for us if we didn’t take it down as the game, they said, could be construed as a “threat to the president”.
Ultimately, the guy whose name was on the domain name, I think it was smakbush.com, got worried and we took it down. I was stunned.
in response to a video linked there…
Update: My friend just made the game public so you can see what they were so freaked out about at http://www.ihateyoursuv.com/media2.html
