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Friday, July 1, 2011

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When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 27 that states cannot forbid the sale or rental of video games to children, it punctuated two terms remarkable for the court’s support for free expression â€"  in cases remarkable for speech that many, if not most, of us really, really dislike.

In  Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the court’s  7-2 decision voided a never-enforced California law that banned the sale or rental to children age 17 and younger of video games involving violence, gore and assault.

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