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"Socialist Restrictions"? Isn't that an oxymoron? | |
I don't trust the Chinese government on anything else, so I won't trust them on this. | |
Didn't the Nazis say this, only with Jewish people? | |
We're trusting the Chinese news now? | |
Check out these awesome Communist statistics people! | |
Well, it's China, what did you expect. | |
Man, China could be so helpful to the world if they just quit being so xenophobic in their government. Is it really that bad that other countries have influence in yours? If so, why is McDonalds there? | |
China's just mad because the only games they've turned out have been cheap knockoffs, like Dobi Dobi Star and World of Fight. | |
This, I don't trust those bastards when they spew out information like this. | |
Well, no wonder 80% of all prisoners are gamers. When it comes to being able to blame it on gaming, 80% of everyone in the entire world is a gamer. Just because you can find a link, doesn't mean it's the reason. But by all means. If the government in China wants to ban games, it's fine by me as long as it doesn't affect me. Although I'm fairly sure it will somehow | |
Does anyone else find this slightly... I want to say ironic, but I know that's not the right word. Anyway, this just screams out false results. | |
I don't really think it's that surprising considering how popular gaming is in china along with the rest of asia. It would be like saying 80% of violent criminals in the west have seen a sports game. | |
As guilty as I feel drawing connections between gamers and holocaust Jews, this wouldn't surprise me. | |
People do lots of things in the name of socialism that are indeed fascistic. See- former Soviet premier Stalin. | |
Beaten to death... for walking to slow at internet addiction rehab? what the fuck china, what the fuck. Just... what the hell is wrong with you? | |
80% of us will commit a murder tonight, i wont tell if you guys don't. | |
Gotta love statistics. Did you know that 100% of violent criminals are regular users of food? This clearly draws the line between food consumption and violent crime, if we are to stamp out violent crime once and for all food use must be carefully regulated. | |
...and not only that | |
Come on people this is china we're talking about: the nation that believed they could quadruple their steel production using home made furnaces. | |
Aren't 80% of all people gamers? | |
This proves my theory that China's government is insane. | |
Man, I'm glad my brain has developed a self-defense mechanism to shut itself off to avoid damage anytime it catches phrases like the one above. Triggers on phrases that never end well, such as "Christian conservative", "state-run", "Fox", "MSNBC", "CNN", "Eric Estavillo" and "Jack Thompson", among others. | |
Oh China you are always good for a laugh. I'm surprised they don't just come out and ban video games if they think they're such a problem. | |
That doesn't specifically mean Video games are the problem, TV is used by tons of people, Video games are just another form of entertainment which LOADS of people use. | |
-Prisoner number 42 step in. | |
80% of Chinese inmates have become murderers due to online games... Therefore, 80% of China has online gaming capability? America doesn't have that yet...Hell, Japan doesn't have that ability and they're at the forefront of online gaming. | |
What? No? 80% of prisoners doesn't equate to 80% of the population. OT: It's China, we trust their government on what exactly? Oh yes, fuck all. | |
This has bypassed both sarcasm and dumbfounded incredulity and plunged deep into hilarity. | |
So...how many of the Chinese population have played online games? Going by the figures here, China has 1.47 million people in prison. That makes, say, 1 million gamers in Chinese Prisons. China has systematically checked through the background of these 1 million gamers.(Which we know, because we can trust a Government that blocks its own critics) Which are a small part of it's 1,321 million population. In fact, that's just over 0.1% of its population. Strange, that's an awfully small amount of people playing games given that the worldwide approximation is 1 billion against the world's 6.6 billion people; we'd be expecting 18% (roughly) to be gamers. So, if we have proof positive that these 80% of criminals are gamers, that still only makes 6% of gamers into criminals. But wait! If all of the evil killer gamers are in prison, what about all the kids at the internet addiction camps? If gaming makes them evil, they should be in prison. And if it doesn't, why are they in camps? I don't know about you, but I smell a modicum of untruth here. | |
The communist propaganda machine is right, all the Chinese gamers should be restricted to traditional communist activities; Hating anyone with more freedoms than you, living in fear of being branded an enemy of the state, and running over peaceful demonstrators in a tank. | |
Yeah, because Chinese news is just so reliable. | |
100% of them watched movies. What does that say about their credibility. | |
Trust me - I smell it more than a dog smells its own arse (or another dogs arse - whatever is most). | |
You've probably just hit the nail on the head. | |
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Chinese News Claims 80% of Violent Prisoners Were Gamers
A report by China's state-run news organization has linked online gaming to drug use, teenage pregnancy, and murder - claiming that as many as 80% of violent criminals turned to crime thanks to their videogames.
Between imposing "socialist" restrictions on content, nixing the world's most popular MMORPG, shutting down foreign games, and beating kids to death at internet addiction camps, you might almost be forgiven for wondering if the Chinese government has something against online gaming.
The answer, of course, would be yes - even as regulators crack down on some of the country's most popular online games, the official state-run news channel has aired a program accusing the games of being the root of... pretty much all of society's ills, reports Yahoo! News. A China Central Television (CCTV) program titled "Confession of a Murderer -- Focus on Pornography and Violence in Online Games (Part Two)" that aired last Thursday focused on the confessions of a prisoner at a Beijing juvenile detention facility who says that the murders he committed were out of a desire to obtain phat lewtz in an online game.
"He himself killed five people, and the reason he took the path to crime was addiction to violent online games," claimed the program, further going on to report the dubious-sounding statistic that "up to 80 percent of the violent criminals in the prison turned to crime because of online games." The key phrase there, of course, is "in the prison." Because certainly there's no way that talking about the statistics of one particular prison could ever result in skewed information.
Other CCTV reports have blamed games for a variety of social ills, echoing fears from Chinese parents that the games and social networking sites are interfering with their children's schoolwork - which, to be fair, may be the case. But it's a bit harder to believe some of the other claims, like blaming online dancing game Audition for influencing a 14-year-old girl to start having sex with people she met online.
Then again, considering the slightly-infamous WoW epic mount prostitution, maybe that one's true, too.
(Via Gamepolitics)
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