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glen donnar

China Puts Online Games That Glorify Mafia on Its Hit List - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • This year more than a thousand Web sites have been shut down for “vulgar” content, although some critics complain that academic or public service sites that deal with sexually transmitted diseases have also been swept up in the juggernaut.
  • Industry experts say that at least 90 percent of all online games in China have some form of violence, whether they involve homicidal kung-fu masters, sword-wielding hobbits or monsters with a taste for human flesh
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 29 Jul 09
       
      the only thing CHinese government should do is to classify the level of games and also films. it can make people choosing approriate type of game depending on their ages, and avoid young people to reach the voilence and strong sexual behaviour.
  • There are summer camps for teenagers who spend too much online,
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  • more than 10 percent of the country’s young people are “addicted” to the Internet
  • the definition includes children who spend more than six hours a day staring at a computer screen while avoiding sleep, social interaction and schoolwork
  • 70 percent of all juvenile crimes were “induced by Internet addiction
    • glen donnar
      glen donnar on 30 Jul 09
       
      Great work, Jenny! Perhaps Sticky Notes would be good to ask a question of fellow students or for agreement on your comment.
  • Whether it is religion, environmentalism or nonprofit charities, the Chinese government has always been wary of any organized activity it cannot directly control.
  • xinning ji on 29 Jul 09
     
    even though Chinese government try the best to govern the mass media but sometimes it is hard to give the restriction on online information because of its fast speed of spread and a large amount of information.
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Technology | Europe's net refuseniks revealed - 0 views

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internet usage europe online behaviour downloads

shared by Christoph Zed on 04 Aug 09 - Cached
  • more than one in four Europeans had never used a PC
  • People above the age of 65 and the unemployed were the least active online
  • Nearly 70% of people under the age of 24 use the internet every day, compared to the EU average of 43%. But this same group is reluctant to pay to download or use online content, such as music or video, with 33% saying that they would not pay anything at all.
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  • make access to digital content an easy and fair game
  • Christoph Zed on 04 Aug 09
     
    I wonder how the east-west divide impacts this, keeping the expansion to eastern European countries in the last few years in mind.
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