California Appeals Overturned Video-Game Ban To The Supreme Court
from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept
Politicians in California keep trying to push through a ban on the sale of violent video games to minors -- despite the fact that every state that's passed a ban has seen it get tossed out by the courts. The latest setback for California came in February, when an appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that the ban was unconstitutional, but the state's not finished. Its attorney general, Jerry Brown, now says he's asked the Supreme Court to hear another appeal of the original ruling. It's fairly annoying that Brown sees fit to waste even more taxpayer money (especially given the state's budget woes), but perhaps the only saving grace is that the Supreme Court might take the case and reaffirm what other courts have said all along, and finally put a stop to some of this political grandstanding.
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What do the politicians think they will accomplish? I got my first M-Rated game when I was 12 years old... there is no point to the law if parents don't care/know and buy the games for their kiddies anyway. A law that accomplishes nothing isn't really a law, just a bad toothache.
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but that is their bread and butter
politicians think they need talking points and pats on the back for new things rather than making the existing things actualy work.
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Only in does this BS happen.
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Unless there is something else that I'm missing?
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Your statement is flawed, in that if a parent purchase a game for the kid, and that kid is caught in possession of such game, now the parent also gets a fine or locked away. This is what the politicians want.
Video games are not fire-arms or alcohol but some politicians would like to put them all in the same category.
Game rating of T, M or AO is not a law, it is a rating system created by the non-profit company, ESRB.
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/faq.jsp
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It is? Is there any citation for this, because that isn't what the article is about. If there's a slippery slope here that you can back up w/some evidence, lord know I'm on board, but based on the article I don't really see the problem.
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It is not, however, appropriate as a law, as has been proven in the courts time and time again. These politicians are overstepping the bounds of the Constitution trying to make a theoretically fine policy into law, and wasting taxpayer money doing so.
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! person...
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