China Bans Online Gang Games
Online games with gang themes are facing a crackdown in China.
According to People's Daily Online, China's Ministry of Culture officially issued a circular requesting the immediate ban on online gang games that contain themes such as "sinister gang," "crime syndicate," "Mafia," "underworld," "godfather" and "hooligan."
The news report says that such games highlight "beating, killing, robbing, raping, and cheating," while "romancing bloody violence, instigating users to play the role of 'criminal syndicate' members in these games, and advocating such lives."
The story continues to pose that "these games have seriously threatened and distorted legal systems and moral rules and are very likely to have a harmful effect on teenagers."
Online gang games allegedly violate rules of the Interim Provisions on the Administration of Internet Culture, which paves the way for the Chinese government to crack down on this type of media.
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Geeze, China is becoming a slave house more and more every day, what next, they going to ban voilence and swearing from games?
Whoever runs China needs to be put in a mental asylum for good.
That's why we have age restrictions. Plus, the last time I checked, the communist regime was one of the biggest 'gangs' on the face of the planet; is the associated article now saying that system is a bad for humanity? I doubt it. Gang culture is a problem, in any country, but I doubt it's not entirely the fault of voilent video games.
I'm not going to put the west on pedestal, either..seems our own governments are equally hell-bent on controlling our everyday lives, and destroying the rights and privileges our forefathers fought to establish.
Just my 2c.
Correction:
..but I doubt it's entirely the fault of voilent video games.
My bad, sorry.
*violent