Justice served: Louisiana ordered to pay ESA US$ 91,000 |
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Fresh after the defeat of the anti-violent games act in Louisiana, the local U.S. district court ordered the state to pay back the Electronic Software Association the US$ 91,000 that the organization spent on legal bills to fight HB 1381 which sought to ban minors from purchasing gory games.Judge James Brady issued the court order after he ruled the state bill as unconstitutional in November of last year after months of legal proceedings. The bill was successfully passed by state legislators but the law was not fully enacted because of an injunction issued by the district court.
Brady called the bill "tenuous and speculative," pointing out that the bill lacked backing from a social science standpoint. He also said that the law may have "a chilling effect on both video game developers and retailers."
In the same manner, Michigan was also ordered by a district court to pay the ESA US$ 182,349 for legal fees used in the domestic battle to have the ant-game law scrapped. Like the Louisiana bill, the Michigan statute was scrapped.
Via Gamasutra
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If there ever comes a time when minors are banned from seeing any type of violence, our nation will fall. The real world has gore everywhere. People sometimes forget when they eat a tasty hamburger that gore was involved in that. These are the same people who complain most ofthe time.
Violence is everywhere, accept it.
The previous generation played with wooden swords and splastic soldiers, we play video games. The toys evolve, but they stay toys. That's what people have to keep in mind at all time when they want to blame something on videogames.
Justice prevails... So say we all
minors are prohibited from purchasing R- and unrated movies or having to be 13 or older for PG-13. Doesn't the movies "rule" set precedents?
Although I agree with the law being ousted I feel the fight is not over, what should follow is removing any laws prohibiting minors from seeing gory movies just because of their age.
Parents should be in charge and be involved in their childrens' choices.
Exactly, parents should be involved in learning about the games their kids want AND monitoring their online time. I never saw a kid who looked at porn sites with his parent sitting there with him. Put the time in, parents, whether you both work or not.
I have to disagree. I really don't feel strongly one way or another, but I DO know that parents, even the best of them, can't police their kids all the time. I'm a great example, even with my parents keeping a watchful eye over me, I still managed to get around them. I don't think kids should be able to buy the goriest and most violent of games under the age of, say, thirteen. I think by high school years it's safe to say that any damage that could possibly be done to a kid has been done. ^_^ I had Mortal Kombat when I was in middle school, sure. But you know what? My parents bought it for me, because THEY decided I was mature enough for it. I didn't have to sneak behind their back and buy the game with my allowance then play it at a friend's house or what have you. Remember, these laws didn't ban kids from PLAYING violent games, only from PURCHASING them themselves. The kids were still perfectly within their right to experience the bloody evisceration of a living, screaming human being, provided their parents (or some homeless guy they conned on the streets) decided they were fit to experience it. I really don't see what's morally wrong with that.
But that's my two cents, and at my age it doesn't really matter much either way.
Ok, so the nation is saying that people shouldn't have violent games.....All they care about is Gorefest...WELL NATION OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES!! WE HAVE A WAR GOING ON!!!! (For the US and Iraq) SO SHUT UP ABOUT OUR GAMES AND TEND TO OUR REAL PROBLEMS!!