Free speech for video games

[John.d.h]

In case you didn't hear, the US Supreme Court has recently declared that video games get protection under the first amendment (i.e. free speech).

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1448.pdf

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. And “the basic principles of freedom of speech . . . do not vary” with a new and different communication medium.

[Gabbe]

Sticky???

[Ishmaru]

Great day for games! I expect extra credits to make a follow up vid!

[Omega]

Excellent! In a related (somewhat) topic, does anyone else find it ironic (in a negative way) that the people who are making laws about video games, usually ones that limit and restrict them, are 50+ year olds who have never played a video game before? Most of these people who think video games are a bad thing haven't played them themselves, and instead look at flimsy coincidences between them. For example, if a school shooting occurs and it just so happens that the two who performed it happened to play video games, does that really mean that video games make people violent? Bearing in mind that there's also millions more who played the games and didn't become violent, and plenty of violent people who have never played a game before.

Overly, I just think that video games are an unfair target of some for no real reason.

[John.d.h]

Sticky???

My bad.  I originally posted it in the main thread, then split it and forgot to pull the tack out.

Great day for games! I expect extra credits to make a follow up vid!

I actually only knew about it because they posted the link on FB, so I would expect so.

[Gabbe]

Excellent! In a related (somewhat) topic, does anyone else find it ironic (in a negative way) that the people who are making laws about video games, usually ones that limit and restrict them, are 50+ year olds who have never played a video game before? Most of these people who think video games are a bad thing haven't played them themselves, and instead look at flimsy coincidences between them. For example, if a school shooting occurs and it just so happens that the two who performed it happened to play video games, does that really mean that video games make people violent? Bearing in mind that there's also millions more who played the games and didn't become violent, and plenty of violent people who have never played a game before.

Overly, I just think that video games are an unfair target of some for no real reason.

This!! And Exactely this! +1(00)