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Thailand Imposes Gamers Curfew
bg writes "How addicted can you be? According to this article, Thailand will install a curfew to "protect" their childern from the addiction from Gaming. "Game servers, both local and overseas, will be blocked from 10.00pm to 6.00am daily from July 15 to Sept 30, while Internet cafes will also have their hours curbed to those times". Under particular attack is Korean role-playing game Ragnarok, which was introduced to Thailand seven months ago."
Do you ever know where such parental censorship has worked? I can name several where govt. censorhip has worked / is working well for all concerned. Pakistan, for instance, is developing a free porn-blocking s/w at the govt. level.
Never trust monopolists and capitalists to work for the good of you or your kids.The only values they understand are dollars and share-prices.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
"Suppose I have a kid. Suppose that child is playing games too much. Suppose I tell them to stop. Much easier than having a curfew and other governmental actions imposed right?"
I really suppose you have a kid (I do, and can state my personal thoughts on this matter). There's very little chance of parental censorhip succeeding with kids - why? Bcos kids are kids, that's all. This is a matter where Western and Eastern thinking differs a lot - the value of state censorship.
Western societies are generally more tolerant - lax, according to the Earterners, and are driven by capitalism. They tend to focus on rights, rather than duties. This could explain the recent orders permitting gays and lesbians, as well as the inaction on spam.
Earterners generally focus on duties, role models, censorship and even punbishment for acts considered normal in the West. The internet brigs out this dichotomy bcos it's an open network. Thus govt. censorship is a preferred and better solution in Eastern societies - Thailand being one.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Obviously, you are not a "Westerner", so I'll have to do some education:
/ genassembly/a-52-482.htm), about 20% of the 150,000 to 200,000 prostitutes in Thailand are children. Child Prostitution is even worse, percentage-wise, in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, along with a quickly-growing Child Prostitution problem in Georgia (Eastern Europe). The sex trade in Japan is just as rampant as it has ever been, and the Japanese Government enacts useless laws to try to "manage" the sex industry instead of actually limiting it. "Eastern" values are a joke, because they try to make things look lovely and clean on the outside, while one looks deeper the depravety one finds in Eastern society's under-belly is more horrendous than anything found in the "West" - more magazines and films are made in Eastern countries that deal with bestiality, mutilation and other bizarre sexual practices (including "Snuff-films") than any other region in the world.
1) Recent laws were either passed or rescinded that allowed concenting people to engage in Sodomy - basically, it's the "What-goes-on-in-your-bedroom-is-your-business" attitude - in certain states. It had nothing to do with allowing homosexual people to exist. Your comment ("...recent orders permitting gays and lesbians...") sounded like the "West" didn't permit Homosexuals to exist.
2) Just because some people engage in stupid/insane/dangerous activities as part of their lifestyle doesn't make it the norm - it's just that those things get more press/media coverage because of the sensationalism angle.
I have 4 kids, and my wife and I have taught them how to judge the difference between right and wrong. They all have chores to do, they know that they're not permitted to watch R-rated movies and WHY they're not permitted to watch them. We teach our children by a simple addage: "Teach a child which way it should go, and it will not soon depart from that path". Parents have a sacred stewardship for their children, and any parent that is "permissive" and doesn't take the time to teach their children the clear-cut difference between right and wrong must be held responsible for what that child might do that is wrong. My kids don't take illicit drugs or drink alcohol, they don't swear, they don't sneak peeks at porn and they are very conscientious(sp) and considerate. They're not angels, but they know the difference between right and wrong, whereas "permissive" parents hardly give their children any direction or standards to uphold and they wonder why their 14-year-old is in Drug Rehab, their 16-year-old is pregnant and doesn't know who the father is, and their 12-year-old just killed the neighbor's cat by dowsing it with gasoline and setting it on fire.
As far as "Eastern" values and morality are concerned - Thailand, and Bangkok specifically, is guilty of being one of the largest Child Prostitution regions in the world. Government Censorship in Thailand is even a bigger joke than morals and responsibility in the Clinton Administration in the U.S.A. - they may say that they censor certain things in Thailand, but the government there nearly looks the other way when it comes to Child Prostitution. Per a UN Report, (http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord1997/documentation
Eastern values brought Opium dens and drug abuse to America in the 1920's and hasn't stopped pumping the world with Heroin and other drugs (remember, Afghanistan is technically an EASTERN nation and has Opium as it's most profitable export).
Radical elements in Eastern relgions (Radical Islamic Jihadists) brought death to over 5,000 innocent people from many nations in New York on Sept. 11th, 2001. Radical Islamic Jihadists want an Islamic World - if needed, by force or extermination of "infidels".
So much for "Eastern" values.
ScottKin
I don't give a rat's behind about "karma" here or anywhere else. Don't like what I have to say here? Deal with it!
"OTOH, what has Corporate America done to prevent spam and porn from reaching kids?
.adult; people who violate these laws, including ads etc. will be jailed and fined $10,000 for each offence" This is the difference between the West and the East. Westerners are busy DEALING with problems, not solving them. Easterners generally LIVE with problems (often created by the Western counterparts - Freon, Ozone, GM foods, viruses, spam etc) or SOLVE them ruthlessly at little expense.
.adult domain? Simple - the firms making money over porn wouldn't stand for it
Erm, lots actually, like MAPS, a myriad of other porn blocking tools, content filtering and huge time and effort spend at companies like AOL to stop this stuff. Not to mention lots of legislation. I work at network provider, and can tell you - you really really are clueless if don't reallise how many millions have been spent trying to stop people abusing the system."
Just read what you've written- again. This time, think "Has the thing worked? Despite these dollars and efforts and legislation, do kids and adults still have access to porn and spam?".
Now, think what a simple legislation "All spam must be marked ADV:; and all porn must be registered under
"You can't do it because there is no world government to enforce it and we (in the largely liberal, non vail wearing, not averse to porn countries - those which make up the majority of internet users) don't care enough about it to collaborate to achive it"
I understood China imposed censorship within it's nteworks using technology from the US - this proves that the govt can actually prevail to a large extent if it does want to SOLVE a problem. Youseem to be happy with a govt that DEALS with problems for an indefinite length of time, and you seem to be happy with LipService. Good for you.
Why can't there be a simple legislation requiring all adult content to be registered under a
Hell I wouldn't stand for it. You can't do it because there is no world government to enforce it and we (in the largely liberal, non vail wearing, not averse to porn countries - those which make up the majority of internet users) don't care enough about it to collaborate to achive it. But you don't like that answer I'll wager.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
"Eh? What's this? A gas grill??!! WTF?
Oh...it was just a Sears ad for bikini's."
If such an ad was indeed pornoraphic, the foll. would be fined, jailed and publicly rebuked:
The advertiser of said bikini.
The particular brand
The site carrying the ad
The product used to promote the ad.
Extreme maybe, but needed to stop extreme perverts.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
" And you can bet your dictator trodden ass ... Well I say, "FUCK THAT!""
For a responsible parent governed by a democracy, your language is too violent. something wrong with either you, or your government. Hypocrisy, maybe.
"And in regards to you other idiotic statements..."
See.. tolerance (even to contrary viewpoints) seems to be one of your lesser virtues.
"I suppose thats why most of the spam I receive come from relays in China, Indonesia, Thialand, etc... I will grant you that it is mostly Westerners using these open relays "
And yet you can't see that you're being a hypocrite?? The problem is not with open relays etc.. most Easterners are peace loving, and wouldn't resort to violence or guns despite rising costs, unemployment etc. By nature, most of them are peaceable. I was once amazed at the depth of knowledge exhibited by Slashdotters on an article on MP3 on rifle magazines - so many seemed to know about guns, rifles, magazines, pitch, bore, etc.. it was a scary thought.
"The value of state censorship"... yeah, you hang onto that it'll be worth a lot one day..."
And yet, brilliant thinkers, scientists, philosophers, politicians etc. have risen from the East. Why, every day in the US, there's some kind of revolt against Asians robbing 'intelligent' jobs from the West. Freedom is good in the hands of those who respect and value it - censorship tends to move people towards alternate avenues for enjoyment - and these are normally much better.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....