German Law to Blame For 18+ Rated Wii U Content Block In Europe

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Viper1 said:

superchunk said:
That is still BS. So there is no online porn in Germany before 11pm?

I think that the parental controls on the console are sufficient.

They are sufficient but Germany doen't like leaving those kinds of things up to parents.  

This law comes from the "Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons.  Yep, that's a real department in Germany.

the problem is that most parents don't care or even if they care they can't control what the kid is doing the whole day so most of them just don't do it, or why are more people in games rated 18+ younger as 18 when i play online?

so you see, if you like it or not how it's handled in germany (i don't like it) but most parents are just useless for this and if a state really believes that it is a big problem if kids use such media and that those grow to killers or whatever shit it doesn't help those kids that parents could do something because most just don't, most let their kids watch and play what they want. parental control works for the minority.

and in germany it is the "federal department for family, seniors and youth" that "department for media harmful to young persons" is to control it but not where the law comes from.