It happens all the time, what made you think that Gamespot was different? It doesn't take much for someone to say something that another person with a lot of money doesn't like, and than, in turn, the opinionated person gets shat on. In today's world, free speech is only free if there is no money behind it, and it's a real shame. A glowing example of this is Don Imus and his firing months ago because of a joke he made, that's right folks, a joke got someone fired from something they've been doing for longer than any of us have even been alive.

So now on Gamespot we have Jeff being fired for handing Kane and Lynch a review that it deserved. An honest, informative, and pretty much dead on review got the "big man" fired.

If you listen to Gameslaves Radio, you'd know I'm all about making money and corporations doing what needs to be done to make the money, however, I do not agree with the first amendment being violated in order to do so. Jeff got fired for what he said or, how he said it depending on who you ask, regardless. Freedom of Speech says you can go f uck yourself and he can say whatever he wants and not get in trouble for it. Granted, there is some **** who try and manipulate our first amendment rights and say not everything is protected speech, but that isn't the issue here. We're talking about video games, we're not talking about hate speech, treason, or the assassination of any public figure. We're talking about the biggest form of entertainment in America right now, which is scrutiny from the Left and the Right every chance they get, trying to take away it's freedom of expression.

We fight and fight for games to be able to have whatever content the designers wish, but will we fight for a man who simply gives his opinions on the games? Will we sit here and just let Jeff be fired and do nothing more than write blogs about it? Some of us have vowed Gamespot off, some of us don't really care, some of us don't even like Jeff and you think it's a blessing. I don't care if you like him or not, honestly. This isn't about you and what you think of people, this is about the right to say whatever you want about anything you want. If you can't get behind that cause, I wish bad things upon you and your family.

I can't justifiably just sit here and rant at Gamespot, it's not even Gamespot or cNet we should be most mad at, it's Eidos. These bastards used their money and their sway to have Jeff fired for putting up an honest review just because they dumped a lot of money into Gamespot. It's quite obvious now that they didn't pay gamespot for advertising, they paid Gamespot for good reviews, which Jeff did not give them.

CNet and Eidos should both be ashamed of themselves for going down this road. You should be ashamed of yourself if you're going to continue to use Gamespot. How can you trust any of the content on Gamespot anymore after something like this happens? The communities? Sure, I guess. I'll be chilling over at destructoid.com thoug, ya know, where they don't get paid off to write good reviews.