Following Nepal, Iraq will also block PUBG Mobile

Telset.id, Jakarta – Last week, the government Nepal give instructions to the mobile operator in to block mobile games, including PUBG Mobile. The latest news says that the government Iraq also plans to do the same.

Reported by the Telegraph, Iraq’s parliament is discussing a plan to block multiplayer online games, like PUBG, Fortnite, etc.

The reasons are not much different, games considered a danger to the younger generation because it makes them accustomed to violence.

In the draft policy that was discussed last week, one of the games what will be blocked is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Religious leaders in Iraq are also said to be very supportive of this policy.

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They think that violence in games will be very dangerous, especially for the generation in their country. Religious leaders in Iraq reminded that the history of their country has been very attached to war and bloodshed.

Some local media reportedly found that the younger generation in Iraq does not only spend time playing the game. Even addiction to the game is said to have been the reason for several divorce cases and suicides in Iraq.

“It is very sad to see our young generation being brainwashed by the PUBG game. Iraqi society is getting worse with the younger generation instead having to fight in games,” wrote Iraqi Shia religious leader Moqtada al-Sadr on social media.

It stated that Iraq’s population of about 60 million people and 60 percent of whom are young people. The game itself is said to be a way out for Iraq’s young generation in the midst of security and an unstable government and an unemployment rate that reaches more than 20 percent.

A few months ago India also planned to block it completely games PUBG Mobile, but not so. Only a few provinces in India enforce the ban, even to the point of arrest by the police for people caught playing games the.

In China itself is the market mobile games It is recognized that it is very large and also has an addictive effect on the younger generation. To that end, the Chinese government implemented several new rules.

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Multiple developers games one of them is Tencent, applying facial and identity card scanning technology, as well as the duration of playing on the internet games them thus reducing the number of addictions to games in China.

In Indonesia, a similar discourse has also been widely discussed, however games PUBG has been linked to acts of terrorism in New Zealand. Finally, PUBG Mobile was canceled in Indonesia because it was considered to have positive elements and was not related to acts of terrorism. [BA/HBS]

Source: Telegraph

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