http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/us/28scotus.html?_r=2&hp

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down on First Amendment grounds a California law that barred the sale of violent video games to children. The 7-to-2 decision was the latest in a series of rulings protecting free speech, joining ones on funeral protests, videos showing cruelty to animals and political speech by corporations.

Saw this on CNN this morning.

Also, Steam referenced it on their store page. lol

Should have been a given, but it's good that it ruled that way. Make it harder for them to mess with in the future.

Taxpayer money and government time can be used for much better reasons. The video game industry is fully capable of handling ratings. If parents and retailers can't follow them, that's on them.

I gotta agree with PeeKnuckle on this having watched what happened with the music industry back in the 80s. It's a nice "win?" for video games and gamers but honestly it should be up the parents to know and understand what games their kids are playing and the ERSB rating system was doing a fine job already.

I gotta agree with PeeKnuckle on this having watched what happened with the music industry back in the 80s. It's a nice "win?" for video games and gamers but honestly it should be up the parents to know and understand what games their kids are playing and the ERSB rating system was doing a fine job already.

Its beyond money. If you read the courts statement they acknowledge the fact that it is well outside the governments power to regulate what ideas people can be exposed to.

Amen.

Not only that, but the ratings system stays in the hands of the industry (which has truly done a bang up job so far). We've all heard about the ratings board for motion pictures. Can you imagine if we had to endure that for video games?