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China to ban kids in internet cafes.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061030/tc_afp/chinainternetcrime_061030064233
Good idea, now if we can do it with US kids it would be perfect.
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The repression of a young mind, specifically from social and intellectual diversification, is nothing to be admired or applauded.
Just sounds like modern day arcades and skate parks and horrible stereotypes that are allowed to run amuck
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Gee, there goes WoWs Chinese players
What you are probably refering to is when laws were passed to limit online game time. Can't remember if that was China or Korea.
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just like God intended! Hope it catches on in the West, too!
(I am SO kidding)
Maybe this is a huge afterthought but where are the parents in all this?
I mean, if your 16 year old is comming home high as a kite after doing a 12 hour Lineage stint an internet caffee, well... shouldn't that throw up a red flag as a parent?
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And... That... Means... What... Exeactly ???
As I'm pretty sure, there are parents in China?
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That made me giggle.
I guess being from a Western country it's a different thing, but the guy who said 'now to do it here'! It really wouldn't have a very significant impact, and I'll still be stuck in Aberdeen.
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Parents can't always control their kids. The reason why the government enacted the law is because it has started to become a social problem in china where kids would become delinquents due to online games (they would skip school just to play these games whole day long).
I was always sure the reason why internet cafe's are so popular in
china and S. Korea is because most people can't afford to buy and
upgrade their own computers.
Either way, I've always been a fan of small government. People should
do as they wish at their own risk. The safety nets need to be pulled
out if we're going to let the stupid people remove themselves from the
gene pool.
Well... even though I do agree that kids playing too much MMO's can be a problem, I am hard pressed to believe that laying down restrictions is a good thing.
First of all, this isn't... like drugs on the scale of say amfetamin or ecstacy or cokaine; its a sort of drug, but not nearly as dangaerous and hazardous; thus its better for the governement to spend resources on resitricting these things.
Second, your motive for feelilng this need, is that society will benefit from these restrictions. Or will it really? Bear in mind, that this law aims at minors under the age of 18; and one thing that defines a kid below 18 is that they are rebellious, seek out their rightful place in the social landscape and trying to grow up. So if you take away their MMO gaming, they will not be all like: "Oh hey, there went my MMO career, then I might as well do all this boring homework at home instead." Rather, I believe the majority will seek out other sources of recreational activities; gangs, for example, or harder drugs than already some use in these cafes. They will seek out something else. And i cant believe they'll suddenly stay home doing their homework. (And as a side note, I know alot of people being addcted to MMOs, and they do their homework.)
To make a kid do the right thing, encouragment is better than restrictions; since when they're pushed, they'll dig their heels in. Either they'll find something else that is just as bad and time consuming, or they'll just seek out other ways of getting to play MMOs.
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That's the idea for the law. They don't want these kids to become online junkies. They instead want the teenagers to refocus their energy into other forms of past times.
Actually the gold farmers in WoW don't play in internet cafes they play in their sweatshops which are usually private and/or non-descript places. You are not gonna see less chinese gold farmers in the american servers of WoW but instead this law will affect the chinese servers of wow.