Another Video Game Ban Tossed Out
from the repeats dept
Following similar rulings in other states, a federal judge has found that California's law banning the sale of violent video games to minors contravenes the First Amendment. Time and time again these laws have been struck down, but the Senate presses on with an effort of its own, making it likely this issue will end up before the Supreme Court. Never mind the Constitution when politicians can whip up a frenzy around a hot-button issue.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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perfect play
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Does this mean...
Video games are one thing but pornography is a whole other ball of wax when it comes to kids.
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If the politicians just said something simple like, "If a game is rated 'M', then a child under 17 can't purchase it", then they might have a chance at it getting through the courts.
Of course, this whole battle will be as effective as the fight against under-age drinking and smoking. The kids will just have someone older buy it for them, or ask Grandma for a video game at Xmas, or rent if from Gamefly, or ... They will never be able to prevent kids from getting something they want.
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No Subject Given
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No Logic Here!
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I prefer Miller Genuine Draft myself...
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BTW, has anyone forgotten that kids really do not enjoy full rights that adults do? There is a reason why we parents are responsible - to a degree- for what our kids do.
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That's not a law, but an industry agreement. The industry has self-regulated itself in that instance. A law would also run into constitutional problems.
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video games
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video games
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My intention should be clear that I was not attacking legislators in general (Though, in general, I do hate most legislators. Not because they are a legislator, but because I have never heard from a legislator who made normal human sense to me. There's only so much faith I can put in someone who has the job of talking to people for appeasement. It seems like a conflict of interest.). I was putting a satirical spin on how people view legislators today. Just because words come from someone's mouth, or just because words are written on paper, doesn't always mean something. In the case I talked about, there are no ramifications from this law unless parents are not parenting.
I was simply stating the fact that we are all responsible for our children up to a certain age. The generally accepted age is 18 (Whether it says so on paper or not). This is a time when kids are graduating their last required grade for high school. Most kids at this time are already an adult whether or not they have turned 18. The point I was talking about was the responsibility of parents given existing laws (e.g. age of consent statutes), and that laws made after that general fact can be considered null and void. They are of no use because of an already existing, more general, law. It states every child is a child until they are 18 (In your case apparently 17).
Besides the previous obviousness of this comment, the acceptable age for video games seems to be much more of a debatable topic. Mostly because the age for emancipation has historically always been between 14-18. This goes back as far as recorded history can tell us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult is a good site to explain what being an adult is all about. It is more related to physical conditions in the scientific view. The issue of acceptable age for viewing certain video games seems to be, self-evident to me, more based on opinion and again "discernment". This is especially true without the thousands of years' history the "legal adult age," issue carries. Remember video games have been around only since the '60s.
Thanks for your input though, I'm sure other readers were happy to hear from you and dying to hear the helpful info.
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