Games & Free Speech

Score one for the game developers. A little while back a district court ruled that games did not qualify as free speech and thus were not protected by all that fun stuff that comes along with being classified as free speech. Well that ruling just got changed. Here's the deal:

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – A federal appeals court gave the video game industry a big boost Tuesday, reversing a controversial lower court decision and ruling that games are protected by the First Amendment. Last April, Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh ruled that computer and video games had "no conveyance of ideas, expression or anything else that could possibly amount to free speech" in a St. Louis County case that sought to limit children's access to mature video games. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, saying a "particularized message" is not required when it comes to the First Amendment.