Back in 2005 the legislature passed and the Governor signed AB 1179, legislation by ultra-liberal Democrat Leland Yee. This terrible piece of “nanny-statist” legislation presumed to once again assert state government in the role of parenting our children, in this case regulating the sale of violent video games to people under 18. Completely ignoring the fact that there is an existing rating system for video games that works well, the legislature and, ironically, Governor Schwarzenegger, supported this bad bill.
Fortunately, this particular advance of big government was thwarted by numerous California courts, included a unanimous rejection by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It is significant to note that this brings to an even dozen the number of similar laws around the country that have been declared unconstitutional. In the case of AB 1179, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to review the decision of the Court of Appeals.
Never before have U.S.courts used expressions of violence as the basis for a restriction on our Constitutional rights to free speech. You may not like certain video games, but do you really want the government to tell your kids they can’t watch a movie that displays the heroism at the Iwo Jima or on Omaha Beach because too many people got killed or that the depictions of the savagery were too real?
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July 14th, 2010 at 12:00 am
In protest against this stupidity i plan to run over at least 10 hookers in Grand Theft Auto this afternoon.
These busy bodies need to stop!
July 18th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Flash Report would better serve the public turning from whacko social issues and beat the drum for fiscal sanity….then all this other crap goes away.