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Video Games Not Protected Form of Speech

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-for-more-information dept.

E-Rock writes "Video Games are lumped with child porn as unprotected forms of speech. "A federal judge said local governments can limit children's access to violent or sexually explicit video games, saying games are not constitutionally protected forms of speech." Story with limited details at Nando."

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  1. File this under "duh" by zaren · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They're *entertainment*, not speech...

    Unless someone comes out with a pro-[insert political agenda here] game, I'm gonna have a hard time swallowing that something like GTA3 or Final FantasyXXVVVIIII has some kind of constitutional protection...

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  2. Simple question by Darth+Maul · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Why can't parents, and not the government, keep their children from violent and explicit games? And why can't we have a few more judges that have some common sense?

    Every day you see more and more proof that the left is gaining more and more ground in this country. Things like this where government protection seems to be the only solution, so we slowly learn to accept more and more governmental control.

    Yeah, I know, T(H)GSB, but oh well. This is important to me.

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  3. Speech???? by Smallest · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    A video game is not speech; tt's a game. Speech is something that comes out of your mouth. Books are speech on paper. But a video game is a toy, a plaything, a commercial product designed to maximize profits for the producers; it's not speech. When MS puts out a game for the XBox, they are not exercising their 1st amendment right to free speech:

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

    This says nothing about fucking video games.

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    1. Re:Speech???? by Smallest · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      no, it doesn't sound like a movie. it sounds like a game. are barbies speech? they have characters, action and drama; so does D&D, so does paintball, so does monopoly.

      when you play monopoly or Quake, do you get the sense that someone is trying to communicate something to you? no? then how the fuck can it be speech?

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