Video Games Are Ruled Protected Speech, Now What? - 2 views
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Leslie Healey on 27 Jun 11this is true! why gaming is legitimately a path fro educators to formulate learning strategies
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Leslie Healey on 27 Jun 11also--they ask why there are not more erudite games, just as there is "classic" literature--I think games are still a new art form. And aren't there are many fluff books as there are fluff or violent games
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More important than that historic ruling is the reminder by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice that video games, like books, plays and movies, communicate ideas.
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Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat," Scalia wrote. "But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional." It raises the question, what video games live up to that legacy of great literary works? And why aren't there more of them?
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