Video Games Now First Amendment Protected!

[愛]

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-california-law/3425/

Well, glad we got that put to bed. Not like anyone had any doubts about this, though. Video games are for the most part just a really flashy book.

[Logan]

Video games are for the most part just a really flashy book.

A Choose Your Own Adventure book, to be precise.

[TheCanadiandrome]

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-california-law/3425/

Well, glad we got that put to bed. Not like anyone had any doubts about this, though.

this is good news indeed

[XERO]

A Choose Your Own Adventure book, to be precise.

A pop-up book, as well.

Awesome news.

[Peanut]

Honestly, I still don't think it's an awful idea to ban kids from playing M rated games. I guess it's "constitutional" or whatever to allow the parents to make those decisions, but the problem is most parents don't give a sh*t what their kids are playing.

This is both good and bad news. Good because we never have to hear about it again and bad because now every bratty little gay-bashing 13yo kid with $50 from mommy will be able to buy whatever they want without any hurdles.

[愛]

I don't think video games and the legislature should be blamed for bad parenting, though. Any kid can go on the internet and look at porn and murder videos. It's all a matter of how you educate your children. I guess this all goes back to "video games have a bad reputation for making kids killers" and all that garbage. The war is never over...

[ThirdMarioBro]

True, but having been dealt a massive setback on their campaign to control what media the neighbor's kid is allowed to digest; the silly fundamentalists must now go back into their cave and continue with shoving Veggie Tales down their own children's throats and I can go back to Ocarina and Halo. :)

Nice to see free speech win, even if the decision was only made because the Supreme Court always sides with corporate America.

[Sergio517]

It was bullsh*t to begin with. This is good news for gamers, particularly the younger ones. I have tons of problems with the results of bad parenting, but that's no reason to restrict great games from children that can handle seeing blood. They see it in movies, tv, etc, yet they want to treat video games like they are some kind of influential, mind controlling, evil things. Any kid who shoots a gun or drives a car before being of age, and has his mom blame GTA, is just a cop out bullsh*t lie to blame video games and deviate from the real issue of bad parenting.

[TheCanadiandrome]

It was bullsh*t to begin with. This is good news for gamers, particularly the younger ones. I have tons of problems with the results of bad parenting, but that's no reason to restrict great games from children that can handle seeing blood. They see it in movies, tv, etc, yet they want to treat video games like they are some kind of influential, mind controlling, evil things. Any kid who shoots a gun or drives a car before being of age, and has his mom blame GTA, is just a cop out bullsh*t lie to blame video games and deviate from the real issue of bad parenting.

^ deffinately QFT! couldn't put it better if i tried