Video Game Ban loses in Supreme Court

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

The Supreme Court sided with the video game industry today, declaring a victor in the six-year legal match between the industry and the California lawmakers who wanted to make it a crime for anyone in the state to sell extremely violent games to kids.

http://ingame.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/27/6957472-1st-amendment-beats-ban-in-video-game-battle

I don't know how many of these attempts have been made, but they always fail...

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SCOTUS has reaffirmed that this is still a free country. Good for them. WTH is wrong with Clarence Thomas????? Does he think parents have no role in buying kids video games?

"The practices and beliefs of the founding generation establish that "the freedom of speech," as originally understood, does not include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors' parents or guardians," Thomas wrote.

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[mawilson 2,133]

Unlike depictions of "sexual conduct," Scalia said, there is no tradition in the United States of restricting children's access to depictions of violence, pointing out the violence in the original depiction of many popular children's fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella and Snow White.

Hansel and Gretel kill their captor by baking her in an oven, Cinderella's evil stepsisters have their eyes pecked out by doves and the evil queen in Snow White is forced to wear red hot slippers and dance until she is dead, Scalia said.

"Certainly the books we give children to read — or read to them when they are younger — contain no shortage of gore," Scalia added.