> But politicians know better!: "Philippine senators will continue a previous investigation into the effects of violence in online platforms on children."
I'm not a gamer. I played DOOM a little when it first came out for MSDOS in the 90's, got bored, haven't gamed since. Got better things to do.
But I think the senators would do well to listen to the scientists on this one. Political hysteria is not going to help.
In any case, a reasonably bright, dedicated teenager will figure out how to work around any barrier that the politicians put up. That's what being a teenager is all about.
Blaming a game for a highly unstable person doing violence after gaming is just as stupid as blaming a firearm for a highly unstable person doing violence with a gun.
Don’t ban firearms. Don’t ban video games.
Re-open the mental institutions. Stop treating mental illness as normal.
Identify and isolate highly unstable people. There are almost always plenty of warning signs.
Speaking of dangerous online influences, whatever happened to the Trump Administration’s plans to, if not ban TikTok within the USA, force it to monitor the levels of violence or lawbreaking scenes permitted to be viewed?
Last I heard, that date of reckoning kept being postponed during year 2025. I also heard, some American billionaire wanted to buy TikTok from the Chinese. Not certain if anything has been changed.
Back in the’70s politicians in my state wanted to ban (desktop) Dungeons and Dragons. Led to boys offing themselves, you know.
As a kid, I used to play Avalon Hill war games. To date, I haven’t had the urge to conquer another country.
I played the Call of Duty and Battlefield series. I never had the desire to go to war. However the game Americas Army was created by the US Army to help soldiers with “pulling the trigger”.