California is currently in the process of working on a violent video game law that would make the sell of violent video games illegal to children. It's now a big deal in the supreme court and gaining some motion, this can't happen. I could go into a page and a half rant about how that would be infringing on the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America... but gaming site Kotaku has the whole thing covered (Click Here).
The point of me writing this article is that now we have another strong voice in this battle, Comic Book Legend Stan Lee. Lee for those of you who don't know (shame on you) created some of the most popular super heroes of all time, characters like The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Iron-Man, and the X-Men, has stood up to defend the rights of video games.
"I'm writing to urge gamers everywhere to take a stand and defend both the First Amendment and the rights of computer and video game artists by joining the Video Game Voters Network (VGVN). My memory has always been lousy and it's not improving with age. But it's good enough to remember a time when the government was trying to do to comic books what some politicians now want to do with video games: censor them and prohibit their sales. It was a bad idea half a century ago and it's just as bad an idea now. And you can do something about it."
To read the whole article head over to VGVN (Video Game Voters). It's really quite amazing how many parallels can be drawn between what comic's went through back in the early 50's to what video games are going through now. If you love video games, if you love defending the constitution then join Stan Lee and gamers all around the country in opposing this law.
Stan Lee Stands Up For Video Game Rights (Read Here)
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 3:08AM 