Submission + - Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Violent Games
CaptainEbo writes: A federal judge in Louisiana has issued a preliminary injunction blocking a statewide ban on violent video games. The judge's holding that "depictions of violence are entitled to full constitutional protection" flies in the face of Louisiana's assertion that video games interactive nature make them inherently more likely to incite people to violence, and therefore requires reduced First Amendment protection. In rejecting the state's argument, the judge compared video games to literature. "It is the interactive aspect of literature that makes it successful — 'draw[ing] the reader into the story, mak[ing] him identify with the characters, invit[ing] him to judge them and quarrel with them, to experience their joys and sufferings as the reader's own."
