In a 7-2 decision (PDF doc), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. Justice Antonin Scalia, who is usually a right leaning prick, wrote the majority opinion in favor of free speech protection and basically said that the country has a tradition of exposing kids to grisly literature.

He specifically cited three popular and comparatively violent childhood fairytales:

Certainly the books we give children to read—or read to them when they are younger—contain no shortage of gore. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, for example, are grim indeed. As her just deserts for trying to poison Snow White, the wicked queen is made to dance in red hot slippers “till she fell dead on the floor, a sad example of envy and jealousy.” Cinderella’s evil stepsisters have their eyes pecked out by doves. And Hansel and Gretel (children!) kill their captor by baking her in an oven.