14 DAY TRIAL // A judge sitting on the United States Supreme Court says that she and her colleagues have played a number of video games before making a landmark 2011 decision which brought the industry under the free speech protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Elena Kagan, a recently appointed judge, says that a number of her colleagues who had never played violent games before tried some in order to better understand their effects.
She is quoted by Gamespot as saying, “It was kind of hilarious.”
It’s unclear what games the Supreme Court judges tried out.
In 2011, the court decided that it would not be possible to limit access to video games based on their content because it was protected under the free speech provisions of the Constitution and other laws.
The judges have been accused that they were unfamiliar with modern tech and that they could not make informed decisions on cases that involved them.