Spiritual opium for nation

China has announced the enforcement of new rules to eliminate the increasing internet addiction to online games. Within the last 2007 the number of active online gamers in China rose on 23% to 40.17 million, as to regular subscribers  - their number grew on 30%. The authorities are calling the addiction to online games as a main reason of the increased volume of violence and crime among the juvenile.  

The obsession with Internet and especially with online games is colored with marginal paint and is taken as a spiritual opium for the nation. The addiction to the Internet has deep physiological roots: new generation is trying to fill out the spare time and to run away from the problems by hiding behind the mask of the online game hero. More and more they are losing person-to-person communication ability and sometimes they loose the understanding of the edges between the real world and game space. Kids as the most harmed category

Basing on the last implemented legal actions, from now on children have to stay away from internet cafes. More over, the owners of said places were enforced to enter time limits after number of cases when the obsessive players died of fatigue while racing in the game sessions.

Natalia, reporter of Ecommerce Journal