Enemy of The State

This fall will be an important season for the video game industry. It will be the first time the Industry will go as the defendant at the biggest court in the land. The U.S. Supreme court will take on video game legislation restricting any sales of video games to minors. The California bill demands that any violent video games be marked with two inch square label on the front of the box and that minors purchasing them would face up to a $1000 fine. The law eschews the ESRB rating system which already marks its violent video games with a rating of M for mature audiences only and demands a description of what is exactly possible in the game. In accordance with the bill " a game falls under this law if a reasonable person, considering the game as a whole, would find it appeals to a deviant or morbid interest to minors and it is partially offensive to prevailing standards in the community as to what is suitable for minors or it cause the game, as a whole to lack serious literary, artistic, or scientific value for minors."

In other words a law is basically telling us it is illegal to sell a violent video game to a minor(16 and under) or in any way blocks creativity, reading, politics, or science to a minor. Ahem, since when every video game have to be math blaster or Dora The Explorer? to me, as a gamer, this law sounds redundant, The ESRB is already doing its job. It would also complicate any relationships between publishers, retailers and customers. no retailer wants to be scared to sell a game because he's afraid of ending up behind bars. This law a;ready breaks the rights guaranteed by the first amendment, and above all its going to piss a lot of people off. Any one out their in accordance with the defendant?