Crackdown On Game Addiction

[george]

Crackdown targets game addiction

BANGKOK: -- The Interior Ministry has issued a regulation to tackle computer game addiction and control hard disks, especially those used for playing games at cafes, police spokesman Lt-General Achirawit Suphanphesat said yesterday.

Achirawit said the regulation would control the rental, exchange, distribution or screening of games and other media.

Under-18s will be banned from gaming cafes after 10pm every day and before 2pm from Monday to Friday.

"We have laid down the order in response to widespread game addiction that has caused family and social strife," he said.

He said police had assigned chiefs to every province to help enforce the law.

--The Nation 2006-07-13

[chownah]

Game addiction is a symptom of a mental disorder. How do you crackdown on a mental disorder? I wish they would have a crackdown on cancer or heart disease.

[thohts]

Better for kids to be addicted to games than to something else.

Thailand is number 6 in a list of drug offenses (428.9 per 100,000 people).

If they're in the cafes all day, at least you know where they are

[astral]

The Interior Ministry has issued a regulation to tackle computer game addiction and control hard disks, especially those used for playing games at cafes, police spokesman Lt-General Achirawit Suphanphesat said yesterday.

Addicts need treatment, not control.

How much, or more likely how little does Sgt Plod know about computers??

Let alone how to analyse or search a hard disk?

These people really are a joke!!!!!!!!

[aaaaaa]

exactly !

so funny how they always tend to try solving problems "from the end" - by crackdowns, forbiding etc. why not think about preventing such problems - eradicate their root? why not engage youth in sport, whatever else? or EDUCATE PARENTS first of all so that they would CARE for their kids (instead of prefering seeing them off to internet cafe or even elsewhere worse), showing them their sufficient love and affection as parents supposed to? it is "mai pen rai" mentality, take-it-easiness which leads to all those things. first they don't beother to attend to their kids, then when bell rings - they try to "crackdown".

when would be "crackdown" on stupidity, impersonalism, "don't-botherness" ?

[Cpt_M0ney_Sh0t]

How bout a crack down on irresponcible parenting? Weak....

[Scott]

The first thing to do is provide education for parents and young people, then a certain level of control and finally some form of treatment for those with a problem--provided that deciding it is a problem is not left up to the gov't but to the family, friends, teachers or employers of people who can truly say whether or not something is negatively affecting their life or ability to perform.