PK'ing Banned in China For Minors

Evoluder writes "Just saw this over on worldofwar.net as it appears to apply to WoW as well. A story at interfax.com says China just passed a law prohibiting minors from playing games that allow players to kill each other (i.e., player killing)." From the article: "Minors should not be allowed to play online games that have PK content, that allow players to increase the power of their own online game characters by killing other players...Online games that have PK content usually also contain acts of violence and leads to players spending too much time trying to increase the power of their characters. They are harmful to young people."

Comments

Say what?

[Vo0k]

One of few things in their censorship thing they got right.
I really don't understand why boobs are so no-no and killing is okay.

Re:Age check

[Fr05t]

"At least we see how they will check for age. Citizen ID Card. That just makes me shudder"

Oh you don't own a Social Security Number card?

What's the difference?

[seestuffgo]

Wow, unbelievable.

It's interesting that we find censorship of boob'age or swear words to be completely socially acceptable, but we balk at the idea of censoring PK'ing in games.

Who gets punished for breaking the law - the person playing the game, or the company who let it happen?

Re:What's the difference?

[xtracto]

It's interesting that we find censorship of boob'age or swear words to be completely socially acceptable, but we balk at the idea of censoring PK'ing in games.

Yeah... that makes you think which goverment is more stupid, the Chinese for banning games promoting killing and anti human practices or a country where this natural thing which all of our moms and dads did and we will ALL do sometime called SEX is banned?

And of course the leaders of that country are busy killing people and invading some other countries... I think someone should show these leaders what sex is about :) maybe that is the problem...