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Afghanistan Closes Videogame Stores
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the UK Guardian's report that authorities in Afghanistan have closed hundreds of shops where children played video games. Authorities claimed they were "reacting to complaints from parents that their children spent time and money in the shops instead of going to their schools", and also cited alleged gambling and alcohol drinking in the stores as "corrupting the morals" of young people. The story links this move to increasingly conservative elements in Afghanistan's post-Taliban government, mentioning that cable television was also recently banned by an Afghan supreme court judge.
They keep slipping back to hardline Islam like this and we might have to "liberate" them all over again!
GMD
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With all the available outlets for emotional expression and stress relief available in Afghanistan, it's no wonder that it is such a peaceful haven.
What happens when you attempt to relieve growing pressure by sealing it off?
Wynter
"Not all who wander are lost" -- JRR Tolkien
it's really a shame to see such a peaceful nation ruined by the scourge of video games. I'm glad they did something about them before the whole country got devastated.
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?