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Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail

Posted by Zonk on from the as-it-should-be dept.

circletimessquare writes "Good news for common sense: the New York Times examines the track record of state laws attempting to put additional limits on violent videogames, and finds that the courts have struck almost all of them down as unconstitutional. Especially notable is this gem of a quote, from Judge Richard A. Posner: 'Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low ... It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.'"

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  1. MODS SMOKING CRACK AGAIN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Modding parent down as redundant is just malicious modding. Why touch it . . . concentrate on modding up rather than down . . . this comment does not detract from the thread, is not redundant, and simply agrees with GP. Fscking get a grip.

    1. Re:MODS SMOKING CRACK AGAIN by nugneant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Hah, as author of the GP, I must admit I was fully expecting -1, Redundant - that's what Fucking Obvious is all about :)

      Still, it's something that bears repeating, I think. Generally, I hate redundancy, but we can get 1000 nerds in the same thread (well, okay, more like five nerds with ninety accounts each making two posts - whatever) all saying how much DRM sucks - and I think this guy is about as cool as 0.01 DRM Suck Unit is sucky, so, hey, redundant (and this, possibly off-topic), but me too.

  2. Re:Ron Paul would not want this... by AlexMax2742 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I did some research and found out that Ron Paul wants to replace the economy with a gold standard and set our economy back 100 years in the process.

    Oh, and his supporters will mindlessly digg up any article about him on said website, no matter what the article actually says about him.

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