Violent Video Games Protected Under First AmendmentFollow

Jack "Batman" Thompson is rolling in his grave.

I assumed that was more a self-policing industry thing like the MPAA's movie ratings or the old comic codes. Not enforced by law but rather but the industries so to avoid more draconian laws being pushed by upset mothers.

Being an old man, I never bothered to look into it so don't quote me.

They started showing the olde Looney Toons on Cartoon Network, so out of pure nostalgia I watch the hell out of it. However, once in a while they'll show a cartoon that I absolutely LOVED as a kid, so I have it memorized, and I notice they edit out certain scenes that weren't censored before. Like the one where Daffy and Bugs are competing for applause from the audience, and at the end Daffy blows himself up. Bugs admits he can never top that, and Daffy laments that he can only do it once. Completely gone. What gets me is that while scenes like that are being removed, Seth MacFarlane goes out of his way to put more violence and blood in Family Guy episodes, which do get aired in, what appears, their entirety.

What, blowing yourself up on a TNT rigged xylophone is too realistic, but running over someone with a lawn mower in a gory mess isn't?

I'd say it has something to do with time slot. Stupid reason in the end.

I love how you named yourself after an antacid.

Perhaps not, but it does foster the sort of unhealthy views of superiority towards racial & ethnic minorities that could lead to acts of violence in later stages of life.

Kumbaya.

If they won 50% of the time, then it wouldn't be AMERICAN.

Edited, Jun 27th 2011 5:35pm by lolgaxe

That looks like Ame Can on the Zam.com skin. Just for the record.

Didn't look that great on the FFXI skin, either.

What did you paint it with???

Blood from his head where I dropped an Acme anvil on it.

A good ruling, I think. Not so much because of the direct outcome, but because of the precedent set.

The aggression argument was a weak one; with as much conjecture and assumption as fact. No viable case was made for why video games deserve to be treated differently than other mediums.