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VAMatt on 08 November 2019
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konnichiwa said:
VAMatt said:

Are you trolling, or do you honestly believe that it's good for governments to legally limit the amount of time people can spend doing a peaceful, victimless activity?

But this is asia, it isn't that victimless.  We literally had another story this week that a teen died:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7650671/Video-game-addict-17-slumped-dead-computer-Thailand.html

South Korea also have/had a similar measure because I remember very well that a child was angry because he could not play a game because of the time.

Video game addiction exist but in my experience it is limited in the West while it isn't that hard to find horrible cases in asia. 

I don't like the measure but something must be done but no goverment has the right answer, especially not an answer gamers on a gamer forum will like =p. 

In this case, the child just continues to play on his parents account after 90 minutes and if something happens like spending a ton of money the parents are liable

Are you suggesting that Asian people should be treated differently than westerners because a kid died while gaming?   

Life is not problem free or risk free.  Certainly, some people play video games too much.  Some other people spend so much time skateboarding, playing basketball, or fishing, that they neglect family and work obligations and mess their lives up.  It does not then follow that there is a societal problem, and it certainly doesn't follow that government needs to get involved to "solve" it.  

If there is a problem with video game addiction (I do not know that there is, but the purposes of this discussion I'll grant that point), government certainly can't solve it. Governments have shown us time and time again that they are absolutely terrible at dealing with addiction.  But, even if they could, it still wouldn't make it okay for the CCP to trample on the basic human rights of Chinese citizens by monitoring their peaceful leisure activities inside of their own homes.