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Re:Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games ... by lutorm on Monday June 27, 2011 @01:54PM (#2702234)
If a village decides that, yes, it is a good thing to prevent kids from this and you should all do your part to help, how is that different from a government?
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Re:Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games ... by mkr-hn on Monday June 27, 2011 @02:21PM (#2702379)
Everyone seems to have a personal cutoff point where "group of concerned citizens" becomes "government."
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Re:Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games ... by barry-cotter on Monday June 27, 2011 @02:34PM (#2702427)
When the only thing stopping them doing whatever they want is them.
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Re:Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games ... by barry-cotter on Monday June 27, 2011 @02:33PM (#2702422)
You can tell the members of the village to piss off if you disagree with them but government are the men with guns who can make you do whatever they want.

Alternatively any group of humans above the Dunbar number will be constrained to use blunt rule based systems, but below that you can take the circumstances and the persons involved into account.

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