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The high court agreed Monday with a federal court's decision to throw out California's ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento said the law violated minors' rights under the First and Fourteenth amendments.
The law would have prohibited the sale or rental of violent games to anyone under 18. Retailers who violated the act would have been fined up to $1,000 for each infraction.
The court on a 7-2 vote said the law was unconstitutional.
More than 46 million American households have at least one video-game system, with the industry bringing in at least $18 billion in 2010.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
6-27-2011 @ 8:20PM
Tina said...This makes no since, Just like movies games have rating and though im sure retailers could care less who they sell to as long as their selling im sure parents will be upset that their kids will have even better acess to games they dont want them having...
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6-28-2011 @ 11:13AM
newmomma said...NONE OF ANYBODY'S BUSINESS WHAT MY CHILD PLAYS. PARENTS NEED TO BE PARENTS. IF THEY DONT WANT THEIR KIDS PLAYING IT THEN THEY DEAL WITH IT!!!!
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6-28-2011 @ 9:17PM
Robert said...What are you going to do when your child goes to a friends house? These vidio game are not just shootem ups!!!!!! If kids can play these games then why not R and X rated movies too!!!! Some of these games are justv as bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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6-28-2011 @ 11:22PM
Paul said...You people need to calm down. They're just games. Yes, with a lot of violent content, but just games. And just how many children buy these games with their own money? I'll wager MUCH fewer than those who have parents that buy the games for them or who just give them money and no guidelines and freak out about what they buy. This is the equivelant of parents who upset about their non-working young teen girl getting shorts that say "booty" across the back or parents who's non-working preteens are getting fat from eating McDonald's every day. Who is buying the shorts? Or fast food? Or violent video games?
Take responsibility for you kids and control what they buy. That's what I did with my daughter.
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