Iowa Enacts a Statute That Requires a Label on a Video

question 5

Multiple Choice

Iowa enacts a statute that requires a label on a video game to warn parents when "the range of options available to a player include killing and maiming the image of a human being." Gamemakers file a suit against the state to block the statute's enforcement.Based on the decision of a California court in a case involving a similar statute,the court in this case is most likely to rule that the statute

• A)extends restrictions on sex-based content to violence in video games.
• B)violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.
• C)imposes market-share liability on makers of violent video games.
• D)replaces the voluntary rating system currently in use.

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Definitions:

Delusions

Strongly held false beliefs or judgments, which are resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact, often occurring as a symptom of psychiatric disorders.

Hallucinations

Perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception.

Compulsions

Actions or thoughts repeatedly carried out by a person compelled by an obsession or by strict rules.

GAF

Global Assessment of Functioning; a numeric scale (0 to 100) used by mental health clinicians and physicians to subjectively rate the social, occupational, and psychological functioning of adults.