A little before 9 a.m. today, seven protesters — one dressed as Super Mario, complete with mustache — stood outside the U.S. Supreme Court to oppose the California law about to be hotly debated inside. At the center of the hearing was this question: Can a state prohibit the sale of violent video games to minors, or does that amount to a violation of free speech?
“I don’t think keeping violent video games out of the hands of minors is the government’s job,” says Lisa McKee, 26, who had accompanied her plumber-suited friend from Delaware to rally against the law. “It’s the parents’ job to monitor what their children are playing.” But the legal team behind Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed the law in 2005, says the measure is meant to help parents guard their children from violence, in much the same way that laws limiting the sale of pornography are supposed to guard them from obscenity.
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Source: Time.com
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