TIME - Violent Video Games- Protected by the First Amendment.
But the courts have so far rightly refused to do this. Indecency law, after all, has become a mess of late. The puritanical censors at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have been running amok for the past few years, imposing fines on broadcasters for airing off-color language — all in the name of "protecting the children." (One example: the FCC fined a small public television station in San Mateo, Calif., $15,000 for airing Martin Scorsese's acclaimed documentary The Blues, which had musicians using raunchy language.) It is scary to think what the FCC censors would do with the power to crack down on people who put out images they regard as too violent.