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In Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association the United States Supreme Court struck down a California statute restricting sales of violent games to minors, holding that games qualify for full constitutional protection as expression.
Games gained the same constitutional standing as novels, plays and films in the United States. Two decades of legislative attempts to regulate violent content by statute ended, and the argument moved to ratings enforcement, storefront policies and parental controls rather than criminal penalties for retailers.
