American Amusement MacHine Association v. Teri Kendrick

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• holding that the law of obscenity does not apply to the argument that violence in video games causes players to commit violent acts
• recognizing that video games contain stories, imagery, “age-old themes of literature,’’and “messages, even an ‘ideology,’ just as books and movies do”
• determining that Anderson’s studies “do not find that video games have ever caused anyone to commit a violent act, as opposed to feeling aggressive, or have caused the average level of violence to increase anywhere.”
• expressing skepticism about whether singling out video games for regulation would achieve purported goals if other violent media still available
• allowing video game manufacturers to champiqn the First Amendment rights of children
• “The murderous fanaticism displayed by young German soldiers in World War II, alumni of the Hitler Jugend, illustrates the danger 7 (...continued

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