California tried to establish unconstitutional regulations on videogames and failed miserably. Brown v. ESA had the Court voting 7-2 to Alpha Counter a 2005 California law that would put an unlawful lock on game distribution. The Entertainment Software Association is expecting a fat check for $950,000 from Cali to take care of legal fees incurred during the recent Supreme Court case. The ESA says they'll use that cash to help children in challenged communities in California, and they plan to launch a new charity this year that will work to channel young gamers' energies toward future job opportunities.
"Senator Yee and Governor Schwarzenegger wasted more than $1 million in taxpayer funds at a time when Californians could ill afford it," said Michael Gallagher, ESA president, in a release. "However we feel strongly that some of these funds should be used to improve services for California’s youth."
States really need to stop with this business of trying to regulate videogames. As of now, the ESA has received $3.1 million in legal fees in total.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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10:30 AM on 01.26.2012
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The gif just isn't the same without the fart noise.
As a resident of Cincinnati, I feel your pain.
(I swear, I had nothing to do with them. I am sorry world)
Thats nice, but seriously, someone keep an eye on that money. If it turns out a year from now that the ESA used $950,000 to lobby/support a stupid bill that would blast us back to the stone age, I'm pretty sure we should all go to our fridge, grab an egg, and smash it on our face as hard as we can for being so stupid to believe them so blindly.
But they're not.