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Horizons: Freedom in Gaming, So Says the Appeals Court
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In a bit of a turn-around, CNN Money is reporting that an appeals court has overturned an earlier State of Washington ruling banning the sale of violent video games to anyone under 17.
"If the First Amendment is versatile enough to 'shield [the] painting of Jackson Pollock, music of Arnold Schoenberg, or Jabberwocky verse of Lewis Carroll,' we see no reason why the pictures, graphic design, concept art, sounds, music, stories, and narrative present in video games are not entitled to a similar protection," the court said in its ruling. "The mere fact that they appear in a novel medium is of no legal consequence."
Read the rest of the report over at CNN Money.
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