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Utah Games/Porn Law Fails

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-was-quick dept.

Just a few days after it passed the Utah House of Representatives, the 'Games as Porn' law has died in the Utah Senate. Gamepolitics reports: "The Senate, however, never moved the bill out of committee for a floor vote. Dying a quiet death, HB257 has now been thrown on Utah' s legislative scrap heap - at least for the current session. Perhaps the Utah Senate recognized the obvious constitutional concerns surrounding Hogue's bill. As noted by GamePolitics, a pair of well-known First Amendment scholars savaged HB257 in a recent guest editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune."

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  1. Score one for Freedom of Speech by tradiuz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yay! The government works once in a while!

  2. Remember kids... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Video games and porn doesn't mix. Unless you live in Japan.

  3. aw.... by smaerd · · Score: 3, Funny

    ....but I wanted to order games from sleazy catalogs and have them delivered to my door in nondescript black boxes.

    I also wanted to see spam in my mailbox saying "Watch NASTY CINDY TAKE the triforce ALL THE WAY to the palace!" and "DIRTY TRISHA CAN'T GET ENOUGH of Mario Brothers!" That'd have been hot! OH well.

  4. OK, that's it. Fess up. by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    Two days ago, Utah Votes 'No' to Darwin's Critics.

    Today, Utah Games/Porn Law Fails.

    That's too much common sense to be for real.

    So fess up. Which one of us h4x0r3d the Utah Legislature's vote-counting system? Because it's either that, or we're faced with a bigger problem -- namely who are the aliens who invaded Great Salt Lake, and what did they do with Utah?

  5. Re:Most video games are *worse* than porn by MightyMartian · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a parent, you have the power to turn off the TV. As a parent, you don't have the right to ban me from watching what you don't want your kid watching.

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  6. Re:OK, that's it. Fess up. by Kadin2048 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and what did they do with Utah?

    Do we care?

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  7. Re:Most video games are *worse* than porn by XenoRyet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    As a parent, I agree with you, now there are two of us.

    Seriously though, what makes one feel that they are entitled to require the whole world to be coated in a 3 foot layer of nerf, just because their toddler might fall down and bump his knee.

    Parenting is a hard job. The world isn't all kid friendly, but it's your job to keep your kids safe, not the governments, not sociaties, not your neighbors, and certainly not mine. It's your job, quit trying to pawn it off on other people.

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