I was really conflicted when I saw this. Could this be real? Yet, last summer I found my seventeen year old playing an online video game on his laptop that had been produced in China. It looked very similar to the game shown in this video. The game had levels that could only be accessed in certain ways, with skill or money–real money. Of course, skill would only take you so far, you needed money to go farther. I did not like it at all and blocked it. Yes, I still block content from my almost adult teenagers.
I would go pretty far to protect my children from anything my gut tells me could be dangerous. BUT would I, could I, if I ever needed to, go this far? Would our country ever allow it? Are these desperate measures needed by children in our country, too? It makes me so sad to know that online gaming profiteers are exploiting children like this in China. It also makes me angry that it might be happening here. What if anything is being done here?
