In a “fervent endorsement of free speech,” the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday voted 7-2 to strike down a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, said, “There is no question that states have the legitimate authority to protect children from harm.'' “But that does not include a free-floating power to limit the ideas that children may be exposed to.” , has been added to the same category of protections as books, movies, and music, and Scalia has argued that children's books that are considered suitable for minors are… Grimm Fairy TalesFor example, “There's no shortage of gore.” Did the court make the right decision? (See CNN's coverage of this decision.)
SCOTUS got this right. Scalia is right to compare violent video games to violent literature, says Haley Tsukayama. washington post. There is nothing more “terrifying'' than Homer's “eye-plucking scene.'' Odyssey. “I shudder when I think of George Orwell's torture.” 1984” However, I am “relatively unfazed by movements that tear my spine and tear my heart.” mortal kombatParents, not courts, should decide “what is appropriate for the child.''
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