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How is limiting the amount of time a Chinese child can play online games worse than barring me from buying Diablo as a teenager? If people are acting comfortabl

How is limiting the amount of time a Chinese child can play online games worse than barring me from buying Diablo as a teenager? If people are acting comfortable with authoritarian government, it's because we grew up under a quite similar one.

Aerroon 5y ago
In practice there weren't tools around to actually stop you from getting and playing D2 when you were a teenager. There are now. I do agree with you that a lot of rules on kids even in our "free countries" were hypocritical and didn't actually work.
runawaybottle 5y ago
Taliban just banned music recently, again. There are two topics here, one is authoritarianism and the other is parenting. Kids shouldn’t be playing games 5 hours a day and looking up to streamers. The government shouldn’t be involved in this. I think the larger threat of gaming in today’s society is that we have a situation where the standards have gone up dramatically for everyone to be an average mediocre person. You will have to do something serious if you want a real career in the future. You will have to be social and socially astute to navigate social networks (pretty much as early as 10). The pressure is much higher at a much younger age, and chronic gaming is going to be the goto escape. We don’t have a reasonable enough society where gaming can just be an innocuous past time. It’s going to be a hideout for people growing up under the enormous pressure of this new world. I expect drug use, and prescription medication use to be going up on exactly the same curve.
teawrecks 5y ago
Buying is completely different from playing.
- boomboomsubban 5y ago
  So the outrage is that they let children spend their money on something they then can't fully use? As barring buying prevented me from playing as well. I'm against that but don't see it as overly authoritarian.
zerocrates 5y ago
It's a somewhat academic difference but ESRB rating age restrictions aren't enforced by law in the US: it's a voluntary system. The movie rating system is the same. On the other hand, both systems owe their existence in part to government saber-rattling that they would impose actual regulation. Some attempts at actual legal enforcement have been struck down over the years.

Aerroon 5y ago

In practice there weren't tools around to actually stop you from getting and playing D2 when you were a teenager. There are now. I do agree with you that a lot of rules on kids even in our "free countries" were hypocritical and didn't actually work.

runawaybottle 5y ago

Taliban just banned music recently, again. There are two topics here, one is authoritarianism and the other is parenting. Kids shouldn’t be playing games 5 hours a day and looking up to streamers. The government shouldn’t be involved in this. I think the larger threat of gaming in today’s society is that we have a situation where the standards have gone up dramatically for everyone to be an average mediocre person. You will have to do something serious if you want a real career in the future. You will have to be social and socially astute to navigate social networks (pretty much as early as 10). The pressure is much higher at a much younger age, and chronic gaming is going to be the goto escape. We don’t have a reasonable enough society where gaming can just be an innocuous past time. It’s going to be a hideout for people growing up under the enormous pressure of this new world. I expect drug use, and prescription medication use to be going up on exactly the same curve.

teawrecks 5y ago

Buying is completely different from playing.

boomboomsubban 5y ago
So the outrage is that they let children spend their money on something they then can't fully use? As barring buying prevented me from playing as well. I'm against that but don't see it as overly authoritarian.

zerocrates 5y ago

It's a somewhat academic difference but ESRB rating age restrictions aren't enforced by law in the US: it's a voluntary system. The movie rating system is the same. On the other hand, both systems owe their existence in part to government saber-rattling that they would impose actual regulation. Some attempts at actual legal enforcement have been struck down over the years.