Yet another reason to hate California.

In case most of you don't know, the U.S. Supreme Court just today, announced in a 7-2 vote that video games are protected under the First Amendment. Why did they need to vote? Because parents obviously don't understand that they control what their kid has access to. Instead of saying "No Little Tim, you CAN'T get CoD: MW3, you're only a Fetus", they decide to go "RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE, LET'S BAN M-GAMES BEING SOLD FOR MINORS IN CALIFORNIA SINCE WE CAN'T BOTHER TO SAY 'NO' TO OUR OWN KIDS." They are being "Non-Parents", to quote one of the people commenting on the article. They mindlessly buy these games for their children, without consulting to find out that "M"_Rated games are generally bloody and for more mature gamers. Instead, they do the above.

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'"Like protected books, plays, and movies, [video games] 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," said the court.
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Thank you, Supreme Court. Now, the funny thing is, why try and ban M-Rated games? Our rating system is perfectly good on its own merits, and if the parents of such children KNEW what they were buying for their kids, we could avoid such complications. But no, we're in the U.S., so we can't do anything logical...

The point is, I'm glad that this proposed ban was overruled, as it's the parents' fault for not looking at that little white box with the Capital letter inside of it. -.-

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ere's the Link to the Story, Courtesy of IGN.com

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