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US Supreme Court: Video games qualify for First Amendment
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Nice.
This is certainly something whose time has come.
It's nice that there's legal precedent behind games as defensible artistic expression.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the video game industry in a 7-2 vote on Monday morning, striking down a hotly-debated California video game law that sought to place government restrictions on the sale of violent video games to minors.
The long-awaited, landmark ruling sets a precedent for the government's role in the regulation of video game industry, and helps place the video game industry on equal ground with other forms of media in terms of government regulation.
The Court stated that the California law "violated the First Amendment."
"Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium," the ruling states [PDF].
This is certainly something whose time has come.
It's nice that there's legal precedent behind games as defensible artistic expression.
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in short, SCOTUS just gave the finger to the States on stupid video game laws. sweet.
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Naw I'm just kidding this is neat.
He was always entertaining in a morbid way
DNF is already out, man ;-)
That guy doesn't look like he should be around children.
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And none of the justices were against the idea that games = art. Looking at Breyer's dissent, he's more concerned with the fact that the law appears to be narrowly defined enough and compares it to established law. Thomas I ignored because it's Thomas.
Roger Ebert retweeted this guy and I am just stunned at the ignorance on display here
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Games don't kill people.
Gamers do.
Sort of like the guy who gets paid to scoop up poops.
I don't want to step in the poop, thank you poop scooper guy.
Also the fact that the state's entire case seems to revolve entirely around Postal 2, a game no one likes and no one played.
Roger Ebert has a long history of not getting it. He's been absorbed in linear, non-interactive forms of storytelling his entire life. When one is so invested in an industry, and a rival shows promise of bettering the way in which stories are told, the entrenched (read: old) professionals shun the new paradigm. See: Newspapers putting up pay-walls, The Video Killed The Radio Star, and everything that Scott Kurtz has ever said re: comics.
Things one doesn't hear everyday for 800, Alex.
wait, when do you think he was stupid
after he won a Pulitzer?
he's not a stupid man, just someone who has some prejudices
okay
Jay Sherman has two Pulitzers.
Ain't mean shit.
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There's nothing wrong with newspapers putting up pay-walls. Lots of sites ask you to pay for their content. The problem with most newspaper sites are a) most newspapers are shit anyway and b) many of them were stupid and at one point were offering all of their content and archives online at no charge.
Also "a) most newspapers are shit" is the truth!
but he got off his buttits and wrote a dissent for once at least
Nobody has to worry about kids playing it because nobody bought it.
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