Video Games Debate
Both Justice Alito and Justice Thomas has different opinions about the Court’s decision to ban video game sales to minors without parent or guardian approval. Justice Alito agrees with the decision but has concerns about the approach the Court took with the decision. Justice Thomas on the other hand disagreed about the decision but also disagreed with the Court’s opinion about The First Amendment effect the sales to a minor. I personally agree and disagree with certain things each of them informed.
Justice Alito agreed with the Court’s decision on banning the sale of video games to minors but disagreed on the approach they took with it. Justice Alito explains that the Court didn’t take any effort to understand the new technology since technology isn’t the same then as it is now. Then, he explains that there is a big difference between playing a video game or reading violence in a literature because with a video game, you can physically see the action but with books, you are imagining the action
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He explains that selling video games to minors do not interfere with the First Amendment at all and says that “freedom of speech” does not have anything to do with someone selling video games to minors without consent from a parent at all. An example that he gave us was, “It would be absurd to suggest that such a society understood “the freedom of speech” to include a right to speak to minors … without going through the minors’ parents.” I completely agree with Justice Thomas because nowhere in this world does anyone not have a right to speak to a minor without parents permission and to be putting out a law on teenagers to have parents permission is more worse. Teenagers should be old and mature enough to know that violence should never be used in real life if the parents raised them