A few days ago, the Supreme Court struck down a controversial
California law requiring restriction of violent video games to
minors. Without going too deeply into analysis, the court found
dubious the claims that violent games were somehow more harmful
to minors than other violent media—and since California wasn’t
trying to regulate those other media, it was unfair for it to
try to regulate video games too.  As Ars Technica’s Ben Kuchera
puts it:  While the California law would have added an exception
to the first amendment to exclude certain content from
protection, in essence saying that video games were not speech,
the Supreme Court has decided that video games are in fact
expression, and are afforded the same rights and protections as
every other art form sold to consumers.  While in the here-and-
now this applies more to video games than e-books, consider the
way that some e-books have been becoming considerably more
interactive lately, incorporating various forms of multimedia.
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