[lbo-talk] Half Life of the Dems

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org
Sun Oct 16 06:42:41 PDT 2005


It's just a ban on sales to minors, despite Dennis making it sound like a complete ban: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=1195456

As I said, how this is any different from R rated movies excluding minors without parental permission alludes me.

Nathan

----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Half Life of the Dems

Is it blanket ban on sales (as suggested here) or an aage restriction? As you say, that makes a difference.

It's pretty funny that Arnie, Terminator actor/director/producer, signs on to this. Although maynbre he doesn't think that the violence in the Terminator movies is sexual assault which are "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel". . . .

--- Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andie nachgeborenen"
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
> > California's law (signed by the Gropinator
> himself)
> > bans sales and rentals
> > of games which show acts of killing, maiming or
> > sexual assault which are
> > "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel". That's a
> > code word for, anything
> > Dr. Breen and our esteemed benefactors don't like.
>
> -It's blatantly unconstitutional content regulation.
> -Won't last ten minutes in a court of law.
>
> Why are you so sure? Other laws restricting sales
> to young people survive
> challenge. Public libraries often restrict the
> books young people can take
> out, so why should banning sales of certain video
> games not pass muster?
>
> Nathan
>
>
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