God forbid, this may just become the first step towards the better understanding of the nature of video games by society as a whole. Show them that this is not a platform for mindless violence, but a revolutionary new concept, a medium through which people have and will weave stories which an audience will be able to both marvel in and influence, a medium which can help people resolve their life’s problems upon a screen, and most importantly, a medium which has the potential, if people will open their eyes, to elicit the same emotion, the same thrill and the same wonder that any good book or film will draw out of you.Īnd thank you, for bringing the silent masses together in an attempt to convince the government otherwise. I may come from halfway across the globe, but in an age where information technology has put so much that was once accessible at our fingertips, I would be saddened to see one of the entertainment mediums with the most potential today wiped off the map by uninformed madness. Gentlemen, good luck with the Supreme Court. Leave a comment on this post describing your thoughts on the social, artistic and, especially, political value of video games. If we convince the Court that games are political, not mindless, then we win. This very well could be the silver bullet that saves video games in this case.

If we collect enough testimony to convince the court that video games have political value, their distribution will be protected under the First Amendment. The more examples we can provide of games, especially violent ones, having some kind of political content the better. Political speech is treated differently than non-political speech. We need your testimonies about their social, artistic, and political value to help the justices understand just what they would be taking away if they let this law stand.

The Supreme Court doesn’t realize the importance of video games. Since we are one of the few organizations working on this actually made up of gamers, we need to work with the gaming community to strengthen our argument. NYRA is working on an Amicus Brief to submit to the Supreme Court, but we need your help. As gamers, we need to make it clear that video games are more than random violence and that no one should be denied access to them. NYRA defends the rights of youth when they are challenged across the country.

NYRA isn’t going to let them get away with this. These people are going to be setting down law that will affect tens of millions of gamers and young people across the country, but their only knowledge of video games comes from the testimonies of people like Andrew Schlafly, who paint video games as little more than realistic murder simulators. None of the lawyers for either side have ever played a video game. No one on the Supreme Court has ever played a video game. Schwarzenegger: keeping violent video games out of the hands of our children since 1992.

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