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Judge Blocks Ban on Violent Video Game Sales
dada21 writes "SFGate is reporting that a federal judge recently blocked a new California law that would have banned the sale of violent video games to minors. From the article: 'Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had signed the bill by Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, to ban the sale or rental of especially violent video games to children under 18 years old unless there is parental approval. The law was to take effect Jan. 1.'"
The judge thinks you've every right in the world to decide what your child has access to. He just doesn't think other people have the right to decide what your child has access to. I'd also note that the games affected by this law are already almost universally labelled "MA" by the ESRB, which means few stores are going to sell them to your kid unless you're there and buy them for her (which is, BTW, exactly what happened in the cases that're used to justify the law). Interestingly enough the law as written specifically exempted parents from liability if they buy those games for their kids, and it's rather amusing that the law would leave such a glaring loophole for exactly the thing used to justify the law itself.