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Late Night Gaming Banned In Vietnam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sleep-is-important dept.

R3d M3rcury writes "Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communication has asked ISPs to block access to on-line games between 10:00PM and 8:00AM. 'The request, made on Wednesday, is another move from the authority to mitigate the side effects of online games. The request follows numerous stiff measures by the ministry to tackle the issue, including cutting internet access to agents at night beginning last September.'"

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  1. Rescheduling by mehrotra.akash · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So, now rather than the schedule being something like
    School -> Homework -> Games
    It will be
    School->Games->Homework
    Homework refers to anything productive done..
    So, rather than spending the end of their day gaming, when you would be tired anyways, spend the time when you are not so tired gaming, and the time when you are tired doing productive stuff.
    How is that good??

  2. Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton will love this. by X86Daddy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Joe Lieberman and/or Hillary Clinton will clamor for the same in our "free" country next, because they think it's just no fair that these other countries get to wreck their people's computer use while the US citizens have no such interference.

    Lieberman's "kill switch" request and the two of them grandstanding over the Grand Theft Auto Hot Coffee mod showed them to be exactly this disgusting and sinister, belonging absolutely nowhere near having domestic powers in the "land of the free."

    And those two are just the obvious and outspoken ones...