Technology

59657 readers

2697 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

531

Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

102 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We've talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from addiction experts, who have pointed out that much of this is being done to allow doctors to get…

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Daxtron2@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's absolutely a level of addictive manipulation in some games targeted towards children, but on the other hand, you are responsible for making sure your child doesn't participate in their systems. Fault on both parties.

[–] Vqhm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who's educating the parents on what's going on in the games? The casinos? The slot machines? The sports betting apps?

Where do the average learn about these things?

All well and good if you are fairly well educated and know about some of the psychology going on. But damn I do not have any hope for the next generation raised on tick tocks as the GOP dismantle public education.

It's going to quickly get like Idiocracy in here all the while bystanders will say, but the parents working two minimum wage jobs to put food on the table and a roof over their head should have taken responsibility for their child!

People fall through the cracks and we all as society benefit when we are responsible enough to try to make sure the cracks can't just swallow you whole.

Shit, I've got 3 university degrees and top certifications for my specify IT field and wouldn't know much about this topic if it weren't for Sout Park Freemium Isn't Free.

We can't depend on being educated or involved with children to protect them from 24/7 365 always online dopamine addiction to compulsion loops.