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Online Gamers in Cybercafés to be Legally Curfewed and Segregated.

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  • 10-11-2005 1:51pm
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    Sponge Bob
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    How !!
    Under rules due to come in next year, cyber cafes will have to set up different areas for gamers and for other internet users.
    Good idea , stick the stinky gamers and the stinky backpackers into one corner I say !!!! . Who came up with this brilliant idea anyways and why ???
    Politicians decided to take the action after being approached by a worried mother whose son has gone missing.

    The teenager was found in a cyber cafe where he had been playing for 48 hours.
    The little scut, but BB is very expensive as we know so no surprise really. How will we deal with the 48 hour sessions ???
    Gaming areas will need a separate entertainment licence and will be required to close at midnight, even at weekends.
    Genius. How will the enforcement work.
    Those found playing games after midnight will be told to leave, while cafe owners who ignore the rules face having their licences withdrawn.

    The plan has met with a mixed response from proprietors and gamers alike.

    Some believe the move will cut crime as well as preventing young gamers becoming addicted to their hobby, while gamers have expressed resentment at the intrusion.
    Any slight drawbacks ??? Yeah Its not Dublin its Subang Jaya in Malaysia . Drat . :( , rest of story here .


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    seamus
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    Sounds ridiculous to me. Bad parent loses her child, Forces change in legislation.


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    BKtje
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    Some believe the move will cut crime
    Tell me, how will forcing youths (and others) back onto the streets where they are bored cut crime exactly? :rolleyes:
    as well as preventing young gamers becoming addicted to their hobby, while gamers have expressed resentment at the intrusion.
    Banning shops from selling cigarettes was supposed to stop youths getting addicted to it. If the demand is there it will remain. Ah sure, only time will tell if im totally wrong and that its a complete success.


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    koneko
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    Sponge Bob wrote:
    Any slight drawbacks ??? Yeah Its not Dublin its Subang Jaya in Malaysia . Drat . :( , rest of story here .

    Don't be a muppet. Wouldn't you be upset if the government tried to regulate your hobby? Oh sorry, sir, you can't play footie today, you did that yesterday. It is an intrusion. Just because you don't like gamers (or maybe you were being sarcastic), doesn't make it right. We could start applying this to watching telly or playing sports, pretty soon it'll be 1984 and you're allowed one hour of entertainment a day.

    I also don't get their point about crime at all. The people committing crimes aren't the people that play WoW for hours in a cafe.


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