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Banning Violent Arcade Games Unconstitutional

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lay-down-the-fines-and-lemme-shoot-people dept.

zTTTz writes "The US District court ruled that it was not only unconstitutional to ban violent video games from public arcades, but also ruled that the city of Indianapolis pay $318,000 in legal fees to the video game industry. This will probably make other cities think twice about trying to censor video game content again." Update 17:45 GMT by J : We covered the Indianapolis story previously in July 2000, October 2000, and March 2001. Check out NCAC's open letter, too. We haven't bothered covering the recurring news of declining real-world violence (while video games just get more gruesome and explicit), mostly because it's the same story over and over.

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  1. Re:Thank you Thomas Jefferson! by mnordstr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Offtopic... Hmm, guess I have to make you a Foe now?!

  2. Oh no! by InnereNacht · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Call Maureen Groppe at 1-202-906-8118"

    Now someone is going to slashdot that poor woman's phone service.

  3. Nice high-resolution picture by Krilomir · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I couldn't get the pictures in the linked article to show up (slashdotted it seems), but here is a nice high-resolution picture (1860x1250) of the Panasonic Gamecube/DVD player:

    http://www.dvdgame.jp/product/photo.html