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US Supreme Court: Video Games Qualify For First Amendment
Wrath0fb0b writes "The United States Supreme Court threw out a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors. Notable in the opinion is a historical review of the condemnation of "unworthy" material that would tend to corrupt children, starting with penny-novels and up through comic books and music lyrics. The opinion is also notable for the odd lineup of Justices that defies normal ideological lines, with one conservative and one liberal jurist dissenting on entirely different grounds. In the process, they continue the broad rule that the First Amendment does not vary with the technological means used: 'Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium. And the basic principles of freedom of speech... do not vary with a new and different communication medium.'"
We are not free but slaves of puritanism...
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Thomas isn't conservative, he's bought and paid for. If you don't believe me, just google Justice Clarence Thomas conflict of interest. He regularly behaves in a way which judges sitting on lower courts would get kicked off the bench for.
The fact that Scalia seems to think his views are extreme should be a pretty good indication of Thomas' fitness to sit be an associate justice.