St Louis Continues Pushing Violent Games Law

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 24, 2003 @09:54AM from the ain't-over-til-it's-over dept.

Thanks to Frictionless Insight for pointing to a St.Louis Today article indicating officials have decided not to give up on trying to outlaw the sale of violent video games to minors, despite a recent tide against their effort. As a CNN article explains, ".. [the original] ordinance, passed by the St. Louis County Council in 2000, requires children under 17 to have parental consent before they can buy violent or sexually explicit video games or play similar arcade games", but this was struck down as unconstitutional on June 4th, with a judge citing the First Amendment and the protection of free speech. The County has now set a petition for review, saying the courts "set too high a standard" for proving a link between videogames and violence. The saga continues..

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The troubling pr0nography issue by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-24 11:16 · Score: 4, Interesting

Well, we do have a similar laws to keep pr0n out of the hands of minors.

We have only anecdotal evidence at best that this is harmful to kids. (Unless there was a study wherein they showed a bunch of pr0n to a bunch of kids...and that's messed up).

Why do those who feel this is different, feel that way?

Could violent games be to potential murderers like pr0n to the potential rapist?

Discuss.