First Amendment Expert Rips California's Violent Video Game Law
First Amendment Expert Rips California's Violent Video Game Law
July 14, 2009
A veteran First Amendment attorney has ripped California's 2005 violent video game statute along with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed the measure into law.
As GamePolitics has extensively reported, in May California petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings which held that the measure is unconstitutional. The Court is expected to announce its decision in the fall.
Broadcasting & Cable reports on criticisms of the California law penned by Robert Corn-Revere (left):
In 2009, the killer cyborg turned governor has materialized in the present from the past in a plot to undermine the First Amendment.
In seeking review, California is asking the Supreme Court to reverse 60 years of First Amendment jurisprudence and to hold that 'excessively violent' material-whatever that may be-'deserves no constitutional protection.' It is also asking the Court to relieve government from actually having to demonstrate the purported harmfulness of speech it seeks to regulate, but instead to defer to "reasonable inferences" and legislative judgments.
If California is successful, it will open the door to regulate not just video games, but a wide range of speech that is currently protected under the First Amendment.
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Posted 11/22/09 at 11:48pm
ZippyDSMlee: AE:they feeding you well? I am enjoying win7 and heading to bed...uhg I need to get up early and start back to cleaning/painting blahg >< need tog et stuff done befor thanksgiving....
ZippyDSMlee: AE:they feeding you well? I am enjoying win7 and heading to bed...uhg I need to get up early and start back to cleaning/painting blahg >< need tog et stuff done befor thanksgiving....
Posted 11/22/09 at 11:41pm
Andrew Eisen: Just got home from an eight hour recording session at Capitol Records. A lot of fun but damn exhausting.
Andrew Eisen: Just got home from an eight hour recording session at Capitol Records. A lot of fun but damn exhausting.
Posted 11/22/09 at 08:44pm
BearDogg-X: 10 N. O. Who Dat?
BearDogg-X: 10 N. O. Who Dat?
Posted 11/22/09 at 09:45am
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I think doc phill is still sout about the break up with his wife he dose not fill holes as much as make them bigger these day
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I think doc phill is still sout about the break up with his wife he dose not fill holes as much as make them bigger these day
Posted 11/22/09 at 12:06am
JDKJ: You should get Phil McCraken to help you spackle those banisters.
JDKJ: You should get Phil McCraken to help you spackle those banisters.
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:57pm
ZippyDSMlee: Oh in the pirate hunter article I need my song ieda heckled DS,JD,Beemon sic im !!!
ZippyDSMlee: Oh in the pirate hunter article I need my song ieda heckled DS,JD,Beemon sic im !!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:56pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:no I am tried from prepping the banisters for painting , worked on them from 12 to 4 and 6 to 8...after I got back from the store...got up early got ready...blah...been up all day..I need a nap...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:no I am tried from prepping the banisters for painting , worked on them from 12 to 4 and 6 to 8...after I got back from the store...got up early got ready...blah...been up all day..I need a nap...
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:42pm
JDKJ: No. You gonna stay up late tonight soldering?
JDKJ: No. You gonna stay up late tonight soldering?
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:41pm
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:Don't you mean Mctite?
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:Don't you mean Mctite?
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: @Zip: Neil, Bob, and Lik McTaint. The McTaint brothers. LOL!!!
JDKJ: @Zip: Neil, Bob, and Lik McTaint. The McTaint brothers. LOL!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:44pm
Flamespeak: I still think military personell, killing other military personell, on a military complex should be handled by military courts.
Flamespeak: I still think military personell, killing other military personell, on a military complex should be handled by military courts.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
Flamespeak: I could see this a mixture of the two charges rather than just one or the other.
Flamespeak: I could see this a mixture of the two charges rather than just one or the other.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
Flamespeak: I think this was mainly a person who snapped, but evidence is showing he definitely had strong inlinations to islamic-extremism.
Flamespeak: I think this was mainly a person who snapped, but evidence is showing he definitely had strong inlinations to islamic-extremism.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:41pm
Flamespeak: People are trying to claim that Hasan's actions were not terrorism. I don't jump on the 'terror train' like others, however
Flamespeak: People are trying to claim that Hasan's actions were not terrorism. I don't jump on the 'terror train' like others, however
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:38pm
mentor07825: Britain certainly does deserve it! And the French! God damn it, it was a hand ball!!!
mentor07825: Britain certainly does deserve it! And the French! God damn it, it was a hand ball!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: mentor07825:Well Brittan dose deserve it....
ZippyDSMlee: mentor07825:Well Brittan dose deserve it....
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:33pm
ZippyDSMlee: Alyric:I don;t hasliburton having to pay back billoins... don;t you love it when the rich roll over the goverment without a care?
ZippyDSMlee: Alyric:I don;t hasliburton having to pay back billoins... don;t you love it when the rich roll over the goverment without a care?
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:32pm
mentor07825: I say we nuke the whales, for the benefit of both mankind and the environment.
mentor07825: I say we nuke the whales, for the benefit of both mankind and the environment.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:28pm
Austin_Lewis: I say we try Al Gore too. I always said he was in on the racket.
Austin_Lewis: I say we try Al Gore too. I always said he was in on the racket.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:16pm
Alyric: The leaked information proves these organizations knowingly defrauded governments (i.e., taxpayers) out of billions of dollars. Yet there will probably never be a trial.
Alyric: The leaked information proves these organizations knowingly defrauded governments (i.e., taxpayers) out of billions of dollars. Yet there will probably never be a trial.
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If this holds up, I will campaign against unicorns. For too long have our children been warped by this phallic filth!
See, I can make up crazy assertions too!
somebody beat you to it. NOT QUITE SAFE FOR WORK
岩「…Where do masochists go when they die?」
my... Virgin Eyes(sarcasm)
Watching JT on GP is just like watching an episode of Jerry springer only as funny as the fights
It still amazes me that while their state is going bankrupt and they are having to fire teachers, police, firemen and release prisoners in an attempt to save money, that they are still wasting money on this nonsense.
I AM THE LAW!
wait, that was Stallone, but you could so see Arnold yelling that.
It's not like California has a great track record for laws recently.
A couple years ago, they attempted to levy a rediculous tax on the adult content being made there. They wanted to add a 25% tax, per step, to the production process. They found 5 steps, which meant that each and every "film" produced there would have an additional 125% tax upon it.
That didn't go over well. The companies literally said "if you enact this tax, we'l just move our business, and then you'l have 0$ tax revenue from us"
Don't you see? It's precisely because they have all those troubles that they're doing this... "Ya, we may be bankrupt, but don't pay attention to that. We're protecting your children!!"
Every time someone say they want to protect childeren I always think about that one lady in the simpsons that awlays screams "THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!"
http://www.magicinkgaming.com/
Personally I always wonder what horrible actions of their own they're hiding behind the children.
It would ahve been smarter to put a 20% tax on porn items and online streaming, that way they have a more plausable revenue stream to go after.
I am a criminal because I purchase media,I am a criminal because I use media, I am a criminal because I chose to own media..We shall remain criminals until Corporate stay's outside our bedrooms..
http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com
Silly Zippy, they aren't interested in good, simple ideas. They want ideas that are overly complicated, will cost more money than they bring in, and will discouraged buinesses from ever working in thier state.
That's the government for ya *roll*
Ah but you seem to forget the age old adage:
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
Oh well. Maybe after Oct/Nov when Arnie is gone. Though I cannot for the life of me remember a time when California and Sanity or at least Common sense (another pair of words that should not be spoken together) were considered to have common grounds.
Exactly what does someone have to do to be called a "First Amendment Expert"? That title seems to be kind of nebulous...
Most likely have a law degree, with extensive studying of constitutional law and then building a carrier specifically around the first amendment; such as representing and consulting clients on first amendment issues for years and years and doing a good job at it... you become an "expert" based on your knowledge and SUCCESSFUL experience with the subject (as in your stance is the one matched by the constitutional courts)... if your not successful, then it's indication that your knowledge is lacking... ofcourse that won't stop jackasses from claiming to be experts
It's more or less how anyone becomes regarded as an "expert" in anything.
Still, it's nice to see a "First Amendment Expert" on this site whose initials aren't "J" and "T".
Yeah, I would agree with you on that.
Even nicer to see one that actually understands the first amendment. Remember the "biofeedback" crap?
Unlike some who hold themselves out to be “expert” in free speech law, Bob Corn-Revere is widely recognized and respected as an expert by his peers in the First Amendment bar.
If california's appeal is rejected the War against video games would be considered done and over(somewhat)
Watching JT on GP is just like watching an episode of Jerry springer only as funny as the fights
Really? They're not going to give up that easily I don't think.
Yeah man people shouldn't have to back up their reasoning for banning things or demonstrate that the whole premise the law is built around is even true. That would require you know work, and facts.
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Debates are like merry go rounds. Two people take their positions then they go through the same points over and over and over again. Then when it's over they have the same positions they started in.
I find it unusual that California, a state governed by a man who wouldn't BE the governor were it not for exactly the kind of media he now seeks to legislate, should be doing this 'in the name of the children' whilst, at the same time they are cutting funding to education to save money.
The best tool you could hope to give your children in this day and age is a good education, is Schwarzenegger to have us believe that Video Game legislation is more important in the fight against gang/drug culture than education is?
Yay for the constitution! Sometimes I feel people are always trying to change it for their own purposes. I mean, how can you misread such a clear document?
Looks like I'll have to take a page from sortableturnip's book and post a picture: