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Is this a good idea?

Yes 12 40.00%
 
No 7 23.33%
 
Waste of Time 10 33.33%
 
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Soleron on 17 January 2013
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.



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Mr Khan on 17 January 2013
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.



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luisvideogames on 17 January 2013

Expect COD sales to SUFFER if this happens!




killerzX on 17 January 2013

ignoring the ridiculous 1% tax (which better, and probably wont pass), i dont see anything wrong with the legislation, it doesnt sound like it will change anything. that is if my understanding is correct, that parents can still buy the games for their kids.



Maelstrome on 17 January 2013

Honestly, I would like m rated and higher games to be treated the same as alcohol and tobacco. What I mean by that is minors could not legally buy or use the products. This would keep children out of the communities for m rated games. Of course this would require under age users to be reported and banned. This might also keep certain devs from using an m rating as a badge of approval.



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curl-6 on 17 January 2013
Maelstrome said:
Honestly, I would like m rated and higher games to be treated the same as alcohol and tobacco. What I mean by that is minors could not legally buy or use the products. This would keep children out of the communities for m rated games. Of course this would require under age users to be reported and banned. This might also keep certain devs from using an m rating as a badge of approval.

I'd support this.