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Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
1MC writes "The Chinese govt is requiring game houses to modify MMOG's to restrict under 18 users to 3 hours "productive" gameplay per day. This "anti-addiction" software must be in place within 4 months, with games not compliant by July 15 liable to be shut down in China. Net9, Shanda and NetEase will be moving to comply with the government regulations. Users will have to register with their real names and Chinese identity card numbers to be allowed access to the games."
The USA does this quite a bit, and we really don't have so many subversive groups, because the way that it is done makes their subversive groups look like fringe crazies.
The thing china is doing wrong is that they are trying to stomp out subversive groups without addressing the underlying issues or at least swinging popular opinion against subversive groups. They need to cause their own terrorist attack (from XYZ subversive group in china) so that they can have public opinion behind the government again.
Right...in the USA, "human rights" are just something for (white or rich) Americans to enjoy. If you live in Cuba, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Peru, or Chile, or Guatemala, or any of the other countries where the USA has like assassinated democratically elected leaders, invaded to steal resources, helped to ignite civil wars - sometimes by arming both sides, or just generally swindled and fucked with in order to keep their governments bankrupt.
Then, you can look at the prisons, which are filled with somewhere on the order or 80% non-white citizens in a country with roughly 80% white population. Over 2/3 of those in American prisons are there on nonviolent drug offenses (many incredibly minor for the punishment), and they are working as essential slaves in a privatized prison economy. Oh, and in many states, they will lose their right to vote - for the rest of their lives, despite the fact that drug laws have been continually lobbied for by groups like the trial lawyer's association and prison food suppliers, who make more money when people are incarcerated. (Money for white lawyers instead of freedom for minority Americans.)
And then there are further instances that are sometimes difficult to quantify: Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons, evil despots in foreign governments who are on our payroll, oil companies raping poor countries by stealing 85% of their profits from oil, free speech only existing in "free speech zones", the PATRIOT Act, etc. and so on...
Seriously, Americans (of which I am one) throwing darts at other countries because of "human rights" is a fucking joke. And it's a really twisted, disgusting joke, because these same Americans apparently seem to believe that their government is immune from being Really Fucking Evil because they can play video games more than 3 hours a day and say that Bush is a fucking asshole (which he indeed is).
In the case of China, many of the "nanny state" policies are irritiating, and perhaps even "Morally wrong", and many are certainly motivated by a great deal of paranoia and self-preservation on the government's behalf. And, journalists have indeed been jailed, and all sorts of horrible things have happened in the name of the government. And all of these things are indeed disgusting.
I'm not arguing China's government isn't tinged with evil. But if you get yuor head out of your ass and stop watching/reading American news, which is controlled by exactly 3 companies, 2 of which are defense contractors, you might find out our government is just as evil, only we hide it better, and we tend to fuck with people outside our country instead of inside.
I think the real point is: governments are evil...plain and simple.
Anyway, while you cry for the Chinese youth who can't play WoW for more than 3 hours a day, I'll come back to the "freedom" of the USA this weekend, where I can't even take hair conditioner on a fucking airplane unless it is less than 3 ounces or something, and in a ziplocked plastic bag. And, this plastic bag can only be a certain size, even if the contents are in tiny containers and don't exceed the limit, because we all know plastic bag size is what brings down airplanes.
What is that you said about "nanny state" again?
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