Sunday, August 8, 2010

HCM City proposes to ban online games



Nowadays, the new technology such as internet, computer, telephone and cars are became a part of everyone life. I think the most important technology for human being is internet. We always use it to connect with other people from difference country. It is very useful. For teenagers, it can be useless if they use in the wrong way. In this post, however, I would like to talk about online game business that cause evil effects to many young people in Vietnam. The reason why I choose this article is because almost of games online now are become more and more violence. We should take a serious look at it.

In the article, it was said that Ho Chi Minh City Chairman Le Haong Quan has sent an urgent dispatch to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to regulate the development and import of online games for their harmful effect. The city suggest that the government should order the Ministry of Information and Communications to collect and make public standards which rate the violence level of online games. However, the ministry could reconsider already licensed online games and accept only games that do not involve violence, gambling or pornography to continued circulation. What's more, new games need to be rate strictly and assessing the social impact before allow licenses. In order to encourage playing game online, the government should support a ban on advertising online games similar to ban on alcoholic beverages and tobacco advertisement. Moreover, online games should be completely banned from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. The game players must be allowed to play only three hours a day. Finally, the big city such as Ho Chi Minh and other big cities must join the council for appraising the content of new online games because it have so many game players. It is estimated that 2 to 3 million young people play online games in Vietnam.

From my view point, I think it is necessary for the government to take part in this problem. It can be say that this is a serious problem for young Vietnamese because games online are effected to them the most. Similarity, Thai young people also games online addicted. Most of the time when I passed internet cafe I will saw many of young people playing game online. They are not only played in the break time or after school but also in the whole day. However, we should encourage young people to do other activities or sport rather than playing games.






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