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Title: Supreme Court affirms that banning violent games is unconstitutional.
Post by: Cobra951 on Monday, June 27, 2011, 09:42:14 AM

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Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas-and even social messages-through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player's interaction with the virtual world). That suffices to confer First Amendment protection. Under our Constitution, "esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature . . . are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority."

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/27/supreme-court-strikes-down-violent-game-banning-california-law/

7/9 majority opinion.  Yay!

Title: Re: Supreme Court affirms that banning violent games is unconstitutional.
Post by: sirean_syan on Monday, June 27, 2011, 09:53:11 AM

Thank the fucking gods.

Now can we get to the real enemy and ban teenie pop stars? Clearly they are the new source of all of society's ills.

Title: Re: Supreme Court affirms that banning violent games is unconstitutional.
Post by: idolminds on Monday, June 27, 2011, 10:46:57 AM

I danced a small jig this morning when I read it.