Monday, November 1, 2010

California Says Video Games are on the Same Level as Porn?-AGX

 According to a new law in California video games are now Pornography. If your saying "What?" let me explain. A new California law prohibits minors from purchasing M rated games until they are eighteen because they are too violent and immitatable. Seriously? I doubt that an eight year old is going to go and pick up a hooker and go around with a shotgun, just because he saw it in Grand Theft Auto 4. Anyway back to the reason I said that video games are porn. Currently no other piece of media prohibits the sale to minors, like explicit music or R rated movies except for pornography.
Luckily the Entertainment Software Association is coming to our rescue. The ESA has appealed this law and won twice with the argument that the first amendment of freedom of speech protects video games by basically saying that the video games you play are your way of expressing yourself. I completely agree with this. While some people like games such as God of War or Gears of War might be a little more bloodthirsty than the people who play Halo or Call of Duty. Both of these are violent, but I don't see people in Halo ripping apart people with chainsaws attached to an assault rifle. Over all everyone is expecting that the Supreme Court will overturn this law and leave us free to play. Unless your paying for a subscription

2 comments:

  1. you didn't make it clear that games contained sexual things. but it is a little bit of an interesting story.

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  2. I recently read an article over this, it was extremely biased towards banning video games. What kept me reading it was the comments various users responded with. They had many accurate points that one might not have thought of when just looking over the article. You have to realize, this law will do nothing except cause irritation for parents who will have to buy games for their kids more often.

    -Nicholas Flamel

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