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Congrats to the video game community and the First Amendment.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

One thing I did not like about my years before eighteen-years-old was all the added restrictions on my liberty, including things as simple as going to a music club or dance club just because I had not yet reached the drinking age (which was eighteen in my native Connecticut at the time) even if I did not give a damn about drinking there.  Praised be federal trial judge Ronald M. Whyte (a Republican appointee, no less, in the form of George H.W. Bush) and the Ninth Circuit three-judge panel (two of three are Bush I and Bush II appointees) for invalidating on First Amendment grounds, a California law limiting minors' access to so-called "violent video games." VSDA v. Scharzenneger, et al., __ F.3d _ (9th Cir., Feb. 20 2009).   I am no fan of violence, but remain strongly convinced that my free expression zealotry is on firm ground, and that it is important to err on the side of allowing too much speech rather than too little...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 22, 2009 (boomark / email).