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California State Senator Leland Yee's statement is now online reacting to the latest setback in his ongoing efforts to craft a violent games bill that passes constitutional muster. Unsurprisingly, he decries this as harmful to the kids, accusing the SCOTUS of putting the interests of corporations, rather than the Constitution, ahead of them: “Unfortunately, the majority of the Supreme Court once again put the interests of corporate America before the interests of our children,” said the law’s author, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco). “As a result of their decision, Wal-Mart and the video game industry will continue to make billions of dollars at the expense of our kids’ mental health and the safety of our community. It is simply wrong that the video game industry can be allowed to put their profit margins over the rights of parents and the well-being of children.”
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ViRGE wrote on Jun 27, 2011, 18:15:
Cutter wrote on Jun 27, 2011, 17:35: Having stores selling these games to anyone sidesteps the parenting process. When it comes to teenagers you have to give them some freedom, so even with good parenting there are going to be chunks of times they're going unsupervised. That means the restriction mechanism needs to be the acquisition of the game, not the time to play it. No it doesn't. You're the adult who chose to have the children. You're the adult who gets to patrol them. Your child needs to able to discern what's appropriate by himself. Teach him that skill and reinforce it when he messes up. That's what you do as a citizen in a relatively free society.
The SCOTUS was correct in shooting this bill down. Had the bill passed game developers would have started to alter their content to avoid the "M" rating so they wouldn't get put in the "M" ghetto at retail. So much for their free speech. If you don't think this would have happened look at what enforced ratings did to comics. Now imagine the same stupidity stretching to books and websites. The SCOTUS did well to stop it early.
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