Today, the Supreme Court ruled against a ban on violent video game sales to minors in the state of California. Today's ruling struck down a California law that would have issued fines of up to $1,000 to video game retailers found to be selling such games to individuals under 18.
The 7 to 2 vote ultimately decided that government intervention to "restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed" is not supported by the constitution, citing the First Amendment.
Under the proposed ban, children under 18 would be barred from purchasing games that fell under a broadly-defined umbrella of features, including games that feature "killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being" and lack "serious literary, political, or scientific value."
Most games fall somewhere on a spectrum of violence ? even cartoony games intended for children often feature some depiction of 'killing'?even if that just means making a character hop on top of enemies to dispatch them. Of course, there's no shortage of games that market extreme depictions of gore, like the Resident Evil horror series.
Since the government will be steering clear of regulating such games (for now, at least), why not dig into a few?youth-friendly gaming titles that the whole family can enjoy?
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