User blog comment:MEffect Fan/California VG law/@comment-217683-20101101232832

Firefox says your first link is untrustworthy. Not that it matters, since I'm familiar with the particulars anyways.

As a California voter (i.e. a person from the one state this actually matters in) I'm totally opposed to the law. I sincerely hope it gets overturned, as the government really has no right to be regulating this sort of stuff. It's censorship, plain and simple. Who deems the game "excessively violent"? Where in the constitution does it say that the government has the right to regulate the sale of video games based on extremely subjective standards? What's next?

The law bans the sale of games based solely on subjective standards applied to the content of games. If parents don't want their kids buying these games, don't give them the money to buy the game. Parents should be the arbiters here, not the state. It isn't the state's job to take over as the third parent.