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Originally posted by wolf
Good news everybody!! We no longer have to worry about being restricted from playing "violent" videogames ... the 8th Circuit believes it's a first amendement issue! (presumably from now on the coolest games will be rated "M" for "more sales")
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What's this "we"? We're both well over 17, right?
(Not that the legislation in question wasn't moronic, of course. Any time the Joe Lieberman-types of the world get their knuckles rapped, an angel gets its wings.)
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I wonder if this means that the Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics stickers will be the next to go ...
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Not a chance in hell. Tipper & Co. didn't get what they wanted (a much more explicit letter-coded rating system where _they_ dictated what the letters stood for) back in the day, but what they did end up causing (the Tipper Stickers) were sufficiently generic as to be toothless. (I'm sure Luther Campbell and Jack Thompson might argue the "toothless" part, but efforts to reclassify the Parental Advisory stickers as a legal definition of obscenity died a deserving death.)
Ironically, the video-game industry's stickers are much closer to Tipper's original dream (letter grades AND more thorough breakdowns of potentially offensive content)... but they work pretty well, because those setting the ratings are reasonably objective.