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South Korea criminalizes 'boosting' with new law
Boosting — basically one person playing on another's account to rank them up — is going to be a criminal offense in South Korea with some stiff punishments awaiting the booster.
The new measure comes courtesy of an amendment to the country's Game Industry Promotion Act, reports The Daily Dot. That law was passed in June 2017. This new measure was developed in collaboration with the video games industry in the country and will punish boosters with a fine of up to 20 million won, which is roughly $18,000. They also get a two-year suspended prison sentence.
[...] The act goes into effect in six months, and defines a "proxy game" as "an act that interferes with the normal operation of the game by arranging or providing the service to acquire the score or performance of the game in a way that is not approved by the game-related business operated."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:12PM (6 children)
No I am not, the OP is trying to say Western nations are great and it is their greatness that has allowed 3rd world countries to become tyrannical. It is closer to the reverse, the Western nations worked very hard to prevent freedom from developing in many nations in order to get governments that were more friendly to Western business interests.
I am saying it is a natural evolution of society, cycles of freedom and tyranny as generations figure it out for themselves.
I know, small words and simple concepts are preferable but they aren't always enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:18PM (4 children)
You are merely expanding on what he said, there was no disagreement until you pointed at him and said he had a small penis*.
*paraphrasing
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:27PM (2 children)
No I am not. I am entirely disagreeing with the viewpoint that Western wealth has created old-world tyrannies. I find that statement to be quite ignorant and contains a bias of superiority. "The West" should be looking to solve its own problems with tyranny before creating scapegoats that let us pretend we are perfect.
I another reply I mentioned the fact that Western nations have been busy overthrowing legitimate governments and easing the spread of tyranny. Maybe that is what the OP was going for but phrased it badly? I'm not saying blame everything on the West, but the idea that the West created wealth and other countries fucked it up is... stupid.
"Your statement sounds like an ignorant narcissistic tribal war cry." != "small penis"
No need to engage a topic when you simply boil it down to nonsense huh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:42PM (1 child)
Ah. Your point is a straw man.
The OP never said the West is the best; the OP merely said that the Western models for civilization generate a lot of wealth, and this wealth is now funding the rise of ancient authoritarianism.
So, the West figured out how to generate wealth (namely, capitalism), but cultures around the world (including in the West, I'd say) seem unwilling to give themselves over completely to capitalism—there are ancient, parasitical strains of authoritarianism that are content to use that wealth in ways that directly impinge on the very principles which have made society so prosperous.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:55PM
You tricked him into saying "no I am not" repeatedly. He's GONE!! Wonder where he went, though. To hell? To Mexico? Back to his daddy's skid-marked shorts?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @08:00PM
Hyuck! Vienna sausage fest!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:45PM
Well, Trump. Trump gave a thrashing to that little punk to the north of Korea. Now, Korea has the leisure to be concerned over such frivolities as "boosting".