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Free Speech
Video Game Content
“The question of video games as protected speech requires a factual determination of whether video games import sufficient communicative, expressive or informative elements to constitute expression protected under the first amendment. Moreover, a resolution of this issue will also determine the standard under which the town's regulations are to be scrutinized…. Each medium of expression, of course, must be assessed for first amendment purposes by standards suited to it, for each may present its own problems. It seems clear that before entertainment is accorded first amendment protection there must be some element of information or some idea communicated. That element is clearly lacking here. Therefore, this court finds that video games are not a form of speech protected by the first amendment.” Kaye v. Planning & Zoning Com., 472 A.2d 809, 812 (Conn. Super. Ct. 1983). (right click>save as)
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