If I were a state legislator, I’d give up on trying to outlaw the sale of violent video games to minors, Senator Clinton’s efforts to fund research justifying these kinds of laws notwithstanding. The latest evidence that the courts are simply going to strike down these laws as violations of the First Amendment comes from a U.S. District Court Judge in Michigan.
Judge George Steeh, who had already issued a preliminary injunction against a Michigan law that barred the sale of violent video games to minors, made that injunction permanent yesterday. In his opinion, Judge Steeh said
Video games contain creative, expressive free speech, inseparable from their interactive functional elements, and are therefore protected by the First Amendment.
Cynthia Brumfield at 8:11 PM|Comments(0)
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