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Earlier this year a law passed in the Louisanna legislature that banned the sale of violent video games to people under the age of 18. Not soon afterward the video game industry filed a lawsuit. A lower court judged put a temporary injunction against the law…banning the law temporarily. Now a federal judge has ruled the ban unconstitutional.

The law was passed in June to prohibit the sales of violent video games using the Miller test among other issues. Videos would be banned…

1. If they appealed to the minor’s morbid interest in violence” according to “contemporary community standards,”
2. If they depicted violence inappropriate to minors according to “prevailing standards” in the adult community, and
3. If they lacked “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.”

I’m glad that the seperation of powers (legislature, judiciary, executive) still exsists to some degree in this country. I think the Louisanna legislature to be concerned about flooding from hurricanes rather than having a 17 year old have a copy of Grand Theft Auto.

Speaking of which, I played/still play those games and I have turned out fine…anyone else?

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