South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
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Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#2The South Korean government's obessession with regulating video games is quite interesting.
Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#3The South Korean government's obessession with regulating video games is quite interesting.
I think it has to do with how early esports went mainstream in SK, especially in the SC:BW scene.
Many of the people in government right now were probably into competitive gaming back then, so it makes sense that relatively more interest would go into gaming-related legislation.
Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#4Off-topic question: What output does deleting the "I'm OK with being tracked" node give the site? The only possible answer here is "Yes", so does deletion mean null? But whatever, the site is usable after that, so hey.
Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#5The South Korean government's obessession with regulating video games is quite interesting.
I have heard some complaints about South Korea being a geritocracy - even by the standards of the US. I don't know the fine details but that sounds consistent with some of the other stuff like the porn ban. If they really are being run by a bunch of old men. I don't know nearly enough about the culture or context to know how true or widespread the perception is but it does sound consistent.
Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#6when i was a kid, i thought the stuff about freedom in rhetoric about america was silly and nebulous, but as i get older it seems more true. don't get me wrong, i hate the surveillance panopticon, drug war, and permanent security state as much as anyone else, but at least the government doesn't put you in jail for cheating at video games.
Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#7So does this make selling accounts illegal too? Isn't the workaround simply to not play on someone elses account, but to play on your own account and then sell it to that person later?
Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#8The South Korean government's obessession with regulating video games is quite interesting.
I wonder if their obsession with video games (and I say this in a positive sense) will be a competitive advantage in the future. Like the Mecca for esports, where people can make a living in the industry instead of treating it as "silly nerd fantasy hobby" like here in the US.
Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#9when i was a kid, i thought the stuff about freedom in rhetoric about america was silly and nebulous, but as i get older it seems more true. don't get me wrong, i hate the surveillance panopticon, drug war, and permanent security state as much as anyone else, but at least the government doesn't put you in jail for cheating at video games.
A) this is a fine
B) you make an almost impossible comparison to get to the resolution of
The freedom ideals in the US are part of a social contract that sometimes is reflected by judges to nullify laws that undermine that social contract, but the contract itself is part of a meme - like the pledge of allegiance - made for children in the 1940s to boost morale and national identity in a time where it made a real difference.
The nuances of the 55+ sovereign institutions in the US can never be simplified that easily.
Re: South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
#10The South Korean government's obessession with regulating video games is quite interesting.
Given that playing video games competitively for a living is possible through large prize pools in quite a few games, and that South Korea has historically been a powerhouse of gaming, it seems not at all surprising to me that they'd treat this as fraud and try to crack down on it.
There are plenty of other types of competitions where fraud carries legal penalties, after all.