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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.

10 of 533 comments (clear)

  1. frist stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frost spit?

  2. Thomas Jefferson the slave owner! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jefferson owned slaves. He wasn't such a nice person

  3. Violent arcade games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here is my newest innovation to dazzle all of you diseased creatures:

    The FIRST ever, NEVER seen before, PRE-First-Post.

    Yes that's right you idiotic freaks, I am calling F - P on the IMMINENT JonKatz follow-up to this story on violent video games.

    DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

    PS Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!

  4. Re:suck it trebek by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rough... that's the way your mother likes it

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

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

  6. Banning IPIDs is also unconsitutional! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But tell that to Mother Malda or Merry Michael. And don't you just love how they pretend that hashing IPs makes our identities more anonymous? I could write a Perl script to reverse IPIDs in about fifteen seconds, so it couldn't take Malda more than four or five days. Jesus, people, Slashdot is selling you out to spammers and you don't even care!

  7. 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.

  8. Re:In unrelated news, on the off-topic topic: CSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    good for them maybe but i wouldnt want to be a guy up there trolling for poon

  9. 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

  10. Sega Marine Fishing! by coed.jpg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (to the tune of "My Sharona," The Kinks)

    Oooh my slipjack tuna fish, tuna fish,
    when you gonna give me a TIME bo-ONUS?
    Will you bite my fishing lure, fishing lure,
    twitching at the end of my LINE, time-BONUS?

    Never gonna stop, don't give up, but don't break the line
    Always get it up, in the boat, with some bonus time
    (TIME! TIME! TIME! TIME!)
    T-T-T-Time bo-Onus!

    Look, a lipless minnow! Mmm, it looks good!
    Come and get it, give me a TIME bo-Onus!
    Beat the barracuda out, get it first!
    Don't you let him fuck up my TIME bo-Onus!

    Never gonna stop, don't give up, look "I'm getting good!"
    Now I've got "great action" with my new Sega Fishing rod!
    (TIME! TIME! TIME! TIME!)
    T-T-T-Time bo-Onus!

    When you gonna speak to me? Speak to me!
    Say the magic words on your mind: "time-BOnus!"
    When I lift you from the deck, from the deck
    Mutter for the very last time, "Time-BOnus!"

    Never gonna stop, don't give up, but don't break the line
    Always get it up, in the boat, with some bonus time
    (TIME! TIME! TIME! TIME!)
    T-T-T-Time bo-Onus!

    --

    Pictures |