South Korea's cracking down on youth gaming. Politician Kim Hee-jung plans to draw up a bill that will keep kids and teens from playing computer games for insane periods of time. The country has become infamous due to several incidents in which gamers played themselves to death.

"Should this bill gain the green light from the Assembly, parents of minors aged under 18 will be able to require online game publishers to limit the daily game time of their children," Kim explained.

How does it work?

"Given a father asks game firms to set the time at three hours, the gaming username of his offspring will become idle in three hours after notification via a pop-up window,'' she continued.

Companies that do not comply will be fined.

Isn't it somewhat frightening that Kim plucked that three hour number as her de-facto figure? Guess if players are used to six or seven hours a day, then that's a sizable restriction. But, still... —Brian Ashcraft

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