03.12.2013 - 14:37 [ Techdirt ]

South Korean Politicians Want Video Games Placed Alongside Drugs And Alcohol In Legislation For Addiction

As you should know by now, there are people in this world that think an addiction to the internet and/or video games is a thing. As in, a real thing, a real disorder. This, despite all the evidence that there is no such disorder and that video games are no more addictive than work or school. But scaring the hell out of people with official-sounding terminology makes for great business, leading to care-givers and hospitals opening up entirely new revenue-generators practices for treating these heretofore unproven „diseases.“