The United States Supreme Court hears its first ever case about video games this week. The stakes are high. Here's what is happening and why it's happening.
The United States Supreme Court is hearing that video game case this week, right? Right. The State of California vs. The Entertainment Merchants Association and Entertainment Software Association (aka "The Video Game Industry"). Oral arguments begin at the Supreme Court in front of Justices Roberts, Thomas, Kagan and the rest on Tuesday at 10am ET.
What's it about, again? Whether violent video games should be treated like pornography — in other words, whether there can be a type of violent video game that would be legal to sell to adults but ******* to sell to ****.
Oh, like R-rated movies? No, not like R-rated movies. It's legal in the United States for a *** to go see an R-rated movie, even if it's against the rules set forth by the movie industry. The only kind of movies that are ******* for **** to see are obscene ones (they're ******* for anyone to sell to anyone of any age). Those movies would fall under a special category defined by the Supreme Court in the late 60s for certain kinds of sexual material. California wants violent video games to be treated like that extreme sexual content, something no violent movies, books or magazines are subject to.
