Chinese Jack Thompson?

I think he drew the numbers out of thin air. seventy percent of all crime can be traced to internet addiction? Yeah sure, i highly doubt seventy percent of all criminals have internet accsess let alone enough to become addicted (after all there are limits to how long you can be on the internet at a library). Didn't China already set a limit on hoe you can game on the internet per day? Could the great firewall of china be effecting internet gaming there? I hope he is not taken seriously.

gah why did it post it twice? I only modified the post to escape being flagged.

"Why does not the government deal with such companies as it does with, say, heroin providers?"


Oh! I'll field this one Mr. Chinese Thompson. You see heroin has a direct causality between its usage and the physical harm done to the human body. As where video games have only been shown to have a weak correlation between them and violence.

Any more questions?


But seriously, I wonder how much he makes for sitting on his ass and making up percentages?

I did? Is that why my mouth is foaming? I thought it was just sweat.

I call upon the powers of the internet to grant this man the nickname of Bootleg Thompson, since the Chinese are fairly good a bootlegging. In fact, with the crap this guy is spewing, I would say he is an upgrade. JT 2.0 is his new name!

I welcome this man to the party. (Not the Communist party, that party is lame and the music sucks.) I am sure that he will most likely be taken seriously by the government there. I hope my Chinese counterpart can battle him on www.gameporitics.net just as much as I battle the origional version here.

I don't know about him being a chinese version of jack thompson, his (and I mean the chinese guy's) arguments are much much more easier to shoot down, observe.

He says that 70% of all juvenille crime comes from online game ADDICTION. Well that doesn't make much sense, first off if they are addicted to the games why are they out commiting crimes instead of being inside feeding their addiction? True some addictions cause people to comitt crimes, but that's only when the addiction is costly or illegal. Game addiction is neither, since you only pay $X per month regardless of how much you play. Well electricity bills might become a problem but it seems highly unlikely that they will shoot high enough to warrant criminal activities. Moreover as we all know people addcited to online gaming sometimes become social outcasts, severly reducing the chances that they will go out and commit crimes.

Don't even get me started on child sweatshops as a greater factor for crime than online game addiction.

This is forgetting of course, that most folks don't really consider IQ a good measure of intelligence anymore. Which begs the question as to what part of his ass he got his IQ figures from on MMO's since the two concepts are practically from different time periods.

@Twin-Skies
It's a fledgling industry. Same with shit you wouldn't even think people play, like Lineage 2.

Well, the 70% figure is probably accurate, if you include using open proxies to bypass Chinese censorship. And it's a somewhat reasonable twisting of logic to say that anyone willing to circumvent the good of the State for games must be addicted.

Isn't Gold Farming on WoW kind of a business for China?
So according to him being a gamer is making a person a criminal, well in China thinking for yourself can make you a criminal and being a gamer makes you very free thinking so anyone else see a correlation there.
Oh and this guy is not Jack "Bloody" Thompson hes a guy trying to gain brownie points with China's communist government and attempting to drum up a witch hunt.

I've been playing games since I was four years old (

"80% of games contain pornographic material"

riiiiggghhht...

if the guy wants to say that these companies should run out bidness, then let shut down the their movie industry and their gameing companies. that way every body can have a smile on there face and be super intellengent.

What is going on, I come to this site to both get a kick out of the arguements with Jack Thompson and also here everyone's opinion. I did not see people go to the extreme on calling each other names and that sort of thing so I do not want to see all of this deletion. Gamepolitics please do not make this site boring so I will keep coming to check out the website. Until this deletion happened I was really enjoying the website. Gamepolitics please reply and tell me what is going on.

He's the Chinese version of Jack Thompson's shadow, but he is not Jack Thompson. Not even close.

73% of percentile statistics are pulled out of thin air.

I agree. Taking moral tips and cultural advice from the Chinese government is like taking military training and strategic intel from France.

How retarded. If you look hard enough u can trace crimes back to nearly anything. These people, for some reason, have a vendetta against games and are looking for negative evidence on games where there is none.

Just what the World needs another Jack Thompson jeez I bet noone takes this "professor guy" seriously.

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