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: GamePolitics.comCommon Sense Media and Eagle Forum Back California Game Law
By james_fudge
Children's advocacy groups Common Sense Media and Eagle Forum have filed amicus briefs in support of California's Violent Video Game Law, according to Gamasutra (thanks E. Zachary Knight). Both pro family groups believe that violent media can have an adverse affect on the mental well being of children, so their support for the California law does not come as a surprise.
In its legal brief, Common Sense Media said that it supports the law because "children are more likely to be harmed by the effects of exposure to violent video games than adults, and the potential damage to their psychological development differs from any damage caused to adults." "Denying the existence of a right of children to obtain violent video games would strengthen parents' ability to determine what content is appropriate for their children, and would be consistent with the Court's precedents," it said. [PDF] Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).
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