I don't have the answers yet, but I have learned enough to be dangerous, and ask better questions..

From Google news:

China has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of
$12 million for letting children play violent games and for other
violations, the government said.

The announcement came amid a campaign launched in March to reduce or
eliminate sex and violence in websites, video games and other material
that Communist leaders consider harmful to public morality.

This is me again. Not that I am for censorship in any form, but I do appreciate someone restricting access to violent games for children.

Actually, I wonder why we need to invent and market games to kids so they can electronically beat the piss out of others, blow their heads off, and spew blood everywhere. I wonder why we applaud this by buying crap like that and let our kids play it for days on end.

 I have to come out and say that most of the ads I have seen for games for kids, or rated T for Teen, are more violent than most of what I watch in horror films these days.

Come to think of it, they're as violent as the nightly news reports from Iraq, Israel, downtown Los Angeles, and Chechnya.

And I can't help but wonder, if after hours and hours and hours and hours and hours (literally, some kids grow up with their eyes locked on the screen, answering questions, if at all, in monosyllable, their hands moving back and forth in minute motion, killing yet another online enemy to advance to level 234, over and over and over again....

Well I can't help but wonder if after all this gaming, some reptilian corner of their little brains is getting triggered and stimulated into accelerated growth while their bodies and minds atrophy in place. I can't help but wonder if these kids are our future sociopaths, since they can't relate, can't express themselves, and can't amuse themselves unless they can veg out in front of the screen killing over and over and over again.

I am not for censhorship, but maybe I am for parentorship. Why expose children to this shit? Is this good clean fun? Or letting the computer / TV parent the kid because you are just too lazy to interact with them meaningfully?

If you want them to get a sense of what war is really like, send them on a weeklong trip to Iraq or Chechnya, why don't you? Or just sit 'em in front of Saving Private Ryan for 15 reruns. Then they can see what killing over and over and over again really looks like.