Submission + - All laws limiting violent videogames failing
circletimessquare writes: "Good news for common sense: the New York Times examines the track record of state laws attempting to limit children's access to violent videogames, and finds that the courts have struck them all down as unconstitutional. Especially notable is this gem of a quote, from a First Amendment conservative- not liberal, Judge Richard A. Posner: 'Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low... It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.' Are you listening Jack Thompson?"
