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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let California clamp down on the sale or rental of violent video games to children, saying governments lack authority to \"restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed\" despite complaints that the popular and fast-changing technology allows the young to simulate acts of brutality. On a 7-2 vote, the high court upheld a federal appeals court decision to throw out California\'s ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento had ruled that the law violated minors\' rights under the First Amendment, and the high court agreed. \"No doubt a state possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm,\" said Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion. \"But that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed.\" Video game makers and sellers celebrated their victory, saying the decision puts them on the same legal footing as other forms of entertainment. \"There now can be no argument whether video games are entitled to the same protection as books, movies, music, and other expressive entertainment,\" said Bo Andersen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association. More than 46 million American households have at least one video-game system, with the industry bringing in at least $18 billion (Dh66 billion) in 2010. But at least two justices, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, indicated they would be willing to reconsider his vote throwing out the law, taking issue with the sweep of the court\'s holding. \"I would not squelch legislative efforts to deal with what is perceived by some to be a significant and developing social problem,\" And an unlikely duo, conservative-leaning Clarence Thomas and liberal-leaning Stephen Breyer, agreed that the California ban should have been upheld, but for different reasons. Breyer said the court\'s decision creates an insurmountable conflict in the First Amendment, especially considering that justices have upheld bans on the sale of pornography to children. \"What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with a nude image, while protecting the sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her?\" Breyer said. And Thomas said the majority read something into the First Amendment that isn\'t there. \"The practices and beliefs of the founding generation establish that \"the freedom of speech,\" as originally understood, does not include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors\' parents or guardians,\" Thomas wrote.

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