It's about ethics in SCOTUS reporting on video games: Libs are mad at positive profiles of Justice Scalia

Two popular gamer publications are under fire tonight for daring to write that Justice Antonin Scalia and his stance on the 1st Amendment made him a friend of the video game industry.

ESA lauds the late Antonin Scalia, justice who enshrined video games as protected expression https://t.co/tVhGQJkq0u pic.twitter.com/iN7XfKptPQ

— Polygon (@Polygon) February 14, 2016

Antonin Scalia's landmark defense of violent video games: https://t.co/QWsIye6GG6 pic.twitter.com/bLouvrzs8h

— Kotaku (@Kotaku) February 14, 2016

How dare they!

Its hard to believe @kotaku and @polygon are praising the defence of media by the guy who defended torture by citing Jack Bauer as real

— ᴺᶥᶜᵉ (@gokunaruto65) February 14, 2016

articles praising scalia for defending video games one time are the strongest indictment of gaming you could get https://t.co/sJssdq1yoI

— irl ??‍? ~ Eight Arms, Three Hearts, Can't Lose (@quincognito_) February 14, 2016

Oh my god, really. https://t.co/M8zXuDCtJQ

— Spaz Luhrmann (@TaleSpun) February 14, 2016

Guys. Guys. Don't do this. No. https://t.co/YWulXJkUzl

— What duck? (@geeoharee) February 14, 2016

https://twitter.com/meowrobot/status/698731081852395520

Look he compared homosexuals to murderers but he was cool about Billy playing GTA https://t.co/LTIdvzkJJn

— ?HonorableThief at 8/7 CST✒️ (@HonorableThief) February 14, 2016

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Writing the majority decision for a 7-2 ruling – yeah, that's TOTALLY more important than opposing all civil rights. https://t.co/8Qw5B4h9wk

— Packbat isn't active here any more (@packbat) February 14, 2016

This is a really bad article https://t.co/TAgdnW99eT

— Jay Allen (@a_man_in_black) February 14, 2016

Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association that ruled a state could not restrict the sale of violent video games:

“Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas—and even social messages—through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player’s interaction with the virtual world). That suffices to confer First Amendment protection.”

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