On topic: I think it's fair to say that violent video games are free speech just as much as violent or sexual movies are free speech... and therefore can and should be regulated in the same way.
I think you may be misunderstanding me.
I agree that the making of the game should be protected, but if the law is simply making it where a store can't sell something to a kid that shouldn't be sold to a kid, I'm just seeing the issue.
The moment they try to make a law blocking stores from carrying certain items or a law preventing companies from making certain games, I'll definitely be against it.
I think it's stupid how politicians love to use, "think of the children" as their reasoning for everything.
Let me ask a few questions about this (as I could very well be missing something important here).
1. Would the law prevent stores from carrying certain products or would it just prevent selling it to kids?
2. Would the law prevent parents from buying those games for their kids if they approve of them?
3. Would the law prevent game companies from making certain games and/or selling them to retailers in the state of California?
4. Would the law create a dangerous precedent that imposes on freedom of speech or would it simply follow precedents already established for a number of other products that can't be sold to kids?
I'm honestly not trying to be sarcastic on this.
I'm starting to think that all of the uproar could easily mean that I'm missing something here so I thought I'd go ahead and ask.
I'm currently of the understanding that the law would only prevent stores from selling games directly to kids when those games are rated as being too violent for kids.
I was figuring that maybe little Jimmy doesn't need to be going for the curbstomping achievement in Gears of War 2 if he needs to sneak it behind his parent's backs.
I love playing video games and I personally think that the people who blame every problem on video games are morons, but forcing the parents to physically give the thumbs up on their kid playing a graphically violent game seems like a law that puts the responsibility back on the parents.