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What was the law?
The Supreme Court says California cannot ban the rental or sale of violent video games to children.
The high court agreed Monday with a federal court’s decision to throw out California’s ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento said the law violated minors’ rights under the First and Fourteenth amendments.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=8216346
SCOTUS is right on top of video games.
Treason, Constitutional abdication ... not so much.
A 7-2 decision is fairly convincing. I wonder who the 2 dissenting justices were?
Kind of thought so. Recent USSC philosophy with respect to violent or sexual imagery has been that if it’s a fake and no actual human has been photographed in the literal situation shown, then no harm no foul. The whole MPAA rating system is a voluntary industry standard — nobody legislated that.
So we have no right to have representation on what types of corruption we can prohibit minors from purchasing? We are then losing all of our rights to have any say in any decency standards for our communities at all.
I got this notification via my iPhone. Does anyone know what this law is all about????
The stuff that can REALLY kill you, like ObamaCare, might be OK, though.
How is this different than ratings on movies or prohibiting minors from purchasing Penthouses?
And for those who would say well this was a cartoon, I seem to remember that the movie Heavy Metal (all a cartoon) was rated R so that minors could not see it in the movie theater.
As someone who plays and enjoys "violent" video games, if you don't want your kids to play them, then don't buy them and if your 8 year old kid is running around with $60 bucks in his pocket and buying them behind your back, then you've got family problems worse than any violent video games.
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I don’t believe it’s violent video games that are corrupting children all that much. I think it’s the violent and degrading pornography they have access to that’s really damaging them. 20 years ago an adolescent may have gotten a peak at his dad’s erotic magazines, but today they see the most shocking and repulsive pornography available just by finding someone with an unmonitored internet connection.
Do we know who the dissenting justices were?
Do you know what games your children are playing and what impact all the violence can have on them?
According the American Psychological Association, violent video games can increase children’s aggression. Dr. Phil explains, “The number one negative effect is they tend to inappropriately resolve anxiety by externalizing it. So when kids have anxiety, which they do, instead of soothing themselves, calming themselves, talking about it, expressing it to someone, or even expressing it emotionally by crying, they tend to externalize it. They can attack something, they can kick a wall, they can be mean to a dog or a pet.” Additionally, there’s an increased frequency of violent responses from children who play these kinds of video games.
Dr. Phil also points out that violent video games don’t teach kids moral consequences. “If you shoot somebody in one of these games, you don’t go to jail, you don’t get penalized in some way — you get extra points!” This doesn’t mean that your child will go out into the world and shoot someone. “But they do use more aggressive language, they do use more aggressive images, they have less ability to control their anger and they externalize things in these violent ways. It’s absolutely not good,” says Dr. Phil.
Furthermore, the American Psychological Association says playing violent games correlates to children being less caring and helpful toward their peers. And these effects happen just as much for non-aggressive children as they do for children who already have aggressive tendencies. Children spend a great deal of time with violent video games at exactly the ages that they should be learning healthy ways to relate to other people and to resolve conflicts peacefully.
And, according to the National Institute on Media and the Family, it’s not just a concern when it comes to young children. Teenage brains are in the midst of growth spurts, making teens very impressionable. Just when teens are wiring the circuits for self-control, responsibility and relationships that they will carry with them into adulthood, violent games activate their anger center while dampening the brain’s “conscience.” And think of the more subtle impact: What do you think the effect is when your kids spend time with violence simulators that glorify gang culture, celebrate brutality, lionize crudeness, and trivialize violence toward women?
How can parents minimize any potential harm? Psychologists have found that when parents limit the amount of time as well as the types of games their children play, children are less likely to show aggressive behaviors. Other research suggests that active parental involvement in children’s media usage — including discussing the inappropriateness of violent solutions to real life conflicts, reducing time spent on violent media, and generating alternative nonviolent solutions to problems — all can reduce the impact of media violence on children and youth. If you play video games with your child, Dr. Phil suggests alternative activities that allow you to have more interaction with your child, such as playing a board game together or going for a walk and exploring together.
http://www.drphil.com/articles/article/297
This is an incredibly bad ruling that will lead to abolishing our rights to representation on multiples of issues. It is becoming more and more a dictatorship everyday.
So the immediate question that comes to mind - how is this different, in principle, from not allowing under 18’s to rent hard core porn?
Does this mean my grand kids won’t be sending me their used games any longer? I love their used MOH and CODs.
Good Im a gamer.
More bullsh*t law coming out of the concentration camp formerly known as California.