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Palm Desert Gamers React to Supreme Court's Violent Video Game Ruling
The Supreme Court voted today in a 7-2 decision to declare a proposed ban on selling or renting violent video games to children unconstitutional.
An attempt to ban violent video game sales and rentals to children under 18 met its final test after a Supreme Court ruling today.
The nation's highest court found in a 7-2 decision that the attempted ban violated the First Amendment right to free speech.
The original ban, which was passed in 2005, never went into effect because of an injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte of San Jose.
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The Supreme Court decision definitively keeps responsibility in the hands of parents.
But the court's majority opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, upheld that "like protected books, plays and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas — and even social messages."
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"That suffices to confer First Amendment protection," Scalia wrote.
Bay City News contributed to this report.
