It’s simple. Never stand between a corporation and a shitload of money. Protecting children? What’s that? They don’t even understand the concept. To them we’re all just ‘consumers’ (translation, stooges) including children.

Once again the conservative (read Republican) Supreme Court
protects big business against the good of the people.  Saying
children have the right to violent video games is ludicrous and
that is a mild criticism.  Yes, ultimately it is the responsibility of
parents to rear their children, but putting elements that cause
damage to children within their experience, damages their psyches
in the same way as lead would do damage to their bodies if found
in toys with which they play, and needs to be regulated in the same
way. It is claimed by corporations who create and market war-themed
video games that such simulation games do not do real physical
damage, that there is no correlation between playing a violent game
and actual violence found in society.  That has not yet been
corroborated by any science.  Just the opposite is true.  Further, It is
said that fictional violence is sublimated in video war gaming and as
a result subdues the urge to do real physical violence.  Again, there is
empirical evidence this is false.  If a violent action is conducted over
and over again in a gaming situation, how much easier would it be for
a mind to be desensitized in a real life event?  It defies logic to even
suggest it does not.  But then when have corporations been logical
except when the issue is money to flow like water into their pockets? 

http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/kooijmans.html
Effects of Video Games on Aggressive Thoughts and Behaviors During
Development, a report by Thomas A. Kooijmans, Rochester Institute of
Technology, 2004.  No less than 15 studies are given at this site as a
bibliography for the effects of video games on young minds.

The conservative Supreme Court is the most dangerous institution
in this country prima facie in the service of the public.  In the service
of the public is a laughable concept even though the Supreme Court
is a permanent part of a government devised in the first place for
the benefit of the public.  It ought to be seen that it is the people’s
responsibility to change the flavor of the Supreme Court from a
conservative one to one that is liberal.  The liberal perspective is the
one that represents the welfare of the people, the conservative that of
corporations.  It is time the people start to control the corporate world
by doing what can be done to change the imbalance of the Supreme
Court from conservative to liberal. That does not mean that a
conservative rationale would be totally missing as liberals can become
overzealous as well in their welfare mentality.  It is probably good that a
conservative voice be heard, but also that does not mean it should be
the prevailing voice!  Our voice is the prime and only reason for
government.  We ought not to forget that!  We the people cannot allow
the election of a Republican president who will maintain the
conservative court as it is today, against the people’s interests and for
the corporate interests.

Or, more to the point, when Texas is sued for removing Thomas Jefferson from the official state history curriculum, and Huckleberry Finn is removed from the library bookshelves, Scalia’s words will be used in the suit.

I’ll bet Scalia chokes the next time a case comes up trying to force only Genesis-safe “science” to be taught in public schools and Scalia’s own decision here is quoted against it.

Gotta look at the bright side!

First of all there is *no* causation between the
games we play and what we do. The entire point of
gaming is to become someone else or to do things that
you typically cannot do in real life. One doesn’t
become a real estate mogul by playing Monopoly any
more than they become a mass murderer by playing a
first person shooter or Grand Theft Auto.

Frankly AKR you should be ashmamed of yourself for
perpetuating the same othering tactics (well I don’t
play video games so they must be bad) that the other
side uses.

Every single anti video game study has been shown to
be bogus or politically motivated and the Supreme
Court rightly mocked those studies.

We cannot vilify those creationists that would force
their god into the classroom while simultaneously
trying to force our own ignorant values on others. My
expectation, right or wrong, is that the left lead by
being understanding and empathetic instead of making
knee jerk uninformed commentary.

monkeymind:

Somebody has to be willing and able to keep you safe.

“Be all that you can be” training.