New bill would make ESRB ratings legally binding

[Mr Khan]

Soleron said:

Mr Khan said:

Soleron said:

Mr Khan said:
You can't regulate speech unless it fails the Miller test. They would have to prove that M and AO-rated video games have no artistic merit outside of their own efforts to be profane, which is insanely difficult to prove for anything except hardcore porn.

Do minors have rights?

As far as i know, that doesn't matter. The only time the courts have sided against free speech vis-a-vis children is with allowing public schools to do their thing about expression and such.

Then I hope it does go to court. In the UK minors have no intrinsic rights like that.

I guess the idea is that it isn't the minors' rights aren't being infringed, it's the speech. Could explain the discrepancy for why children in public schools don't have unlimited free speech rights, but speech that could reach the hands of minors (that isn't straight-up obscene a la the Miller test) cannot be regulated, because its still the speech that's being abridged.