games, and manufacturers remained free to create and market these videos. They could even sell them to minors—as long as a parent or legal guardian approved.

Courts have refused to treat violent content as they would sexual material, which the government restricts

under longstanding obscenity doctrines.

Justice Breyer's dissent criticized that divergence, saying that it didn’t make sense to ban the sale of a magazine showing a nude woman to 13-year-olds while allowing them to buy video games in which they commit virtual violence against women.

Leland Yee, the California state senator who wrote the law, said in a statement that “the Supreme Court once again put the interests of corporate America before the int...

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