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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. Not the end of the story by NMerriam · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, MegaGameCorp announced today that their planned Christmas 2002 release of "Child Porn: The First Person Shooter" will be delayed indefinitely...

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    1. Re:Not the end of the story by President+Chimp+Toe · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's already out

  2. We must march on Washington. by Kenja · · Score: 3, Funny
    They go too far.

    We as Americans must demand unrestricted access to virtual crack hos getting blown up. Our Fore Fathers would be proud if they knew that little Jane and Jimmy American had the constitutionally protected right to mass gibs.

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  3. Four Different Games? by BlackFoliage · · Score: 2, Funny
    Limbaugh said he reviewed four different video games and found "no conveyance of ideas, expression, or anything else that could possibly amount to speech. The court finds that video games have more in common with board games and sports than they do with motion pictures."

    Wow! Four games and he's got the whole thing figured out? Imagine if someone claimed they had read four books and understood the complete posibility of literary expression. How did this guy graduate from high school, much less law school?

    -BlackFoliage

  4. Videogames are violent? by EReidJ · · Score: 2, Funny
    If videogames are too violent, then this isn't infringing my free speech rights. It's infringing my right to bear arms!

    They'll pry this joystick out of my cold, dead hands!

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  5. Re:Leisure Suit Larry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    As a boy, I used to masturbate to the Leisure Suit Larry games. Now I masturbate to the Sims Hot Date.

  6. Re:How is that possible? by Green+Light · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, and there's a lot of source code that I wouldn't want my kid to see either...

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  7. Final Fantasy X was a game??? by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, I thought it was a 50 hour movie that just stopped every 10 seconds in case I needed to run to the bathroom. Pressed (x) a few times and it would return to the movie. Huh, a game you say?

    Heh heh... maybe the judge just couldn't beat the final boss and missed out on the closing fmv and thus didn't get the entire story?

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  8. Re:Speech???? by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 3, Funny
    Speech is something that comes out of your mouth. Books are speech on paper.

    Ahem. You have a very creative way of writing books. Most of us uses pens/keyboards with out fingers.

    This says nothing about fucking video games.

    It also says nothing about fucking swearing on fucking internet message boards, my dear Professor Shitfuck.