Top Court Mulls Video Game Violence
The first day of deliberation in the Supreme Court about that perennial legal favorite, violence in video games, brought debate Tuesday about the potential damage done by minors' exposure to sex versus violence and a Founding Fathers joke from Justice Samuel Alito.
The first day of deliberation in the Supreme Court about that perennial legal favorite, violence in video games, brought debate Tuesday about the potential damage done by minors’ exposure to sex versus violence … and a Founding Fathers joke from Justice Samuel Alito.
Wait, before you go…Los Angeles Times:
The justices voted to hear California’s appeal, but they sounded split Tuesday.
Scalia insisted that since the nation’s founding, depictions of sex could be banned, but not depictions of violence and torture.
This drew a mocking rebuke from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who is usually allied with Scalia on the conservative side.
When Scalia pressed the state’s lawyer to explain how the framers of the 1st Amendment would see the issue, Alito interjected: “What Justice Scalia wants to know is what James Madison thought about video games.” The remark elicited laughter in the courtroom.
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