Early this morning the Supreme Court of the United States voted to decide whether or not video games are protected by the First Amendment as a form of speech. This case, Brown v. EMA emerged following the in-statement of a California-based law which banned the sale of violent video games ti minors. The Justices today voted 7-2 in favor of of the EMA who argued that video games are protected by the First Amendment.

The Supreme court has upheld the ruling of the Northern District of California Court and argued that:

This country has no tradition of specifically restricting children’s access to depictions of violence. And California’s claim that “interactive” video games present special problems, in that the player participates in the violent action on screen and determines its outcome, is unpersuasive

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