Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association

Censorship News: The Video Game Issue

By Teresa Koberstein|2019-03-07T23:28:41-05:00November 17th, 2010|Blog|

NCAC devotes the latest issue of Censorship News to video games and the latest in a series of efforts to “protect” minors by restricting their freedom of speech. We discuss the video game case heard in the Supreme Court on November 2, Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. The Court will decide whether the state can impose criminal penalties for selling [...]

Violent Video Games in the Supreme Court

By Joan Bertin|2019-03-06T15:23:02-05:00November 5th, 2010|Blog|

Like all the other forms of expression that were feared initially – including the printing press – video games will certainly become part of mainstream culture, and the anxiety over their effects on young people will appear foolish in retrospect.