I also think it’s a good bet that after (a) a sufficiently high-profile death (Congressperson’s son) or (b) the problems scale up to where everyone knows someone who lost their job, we’re going to see attempted regulation (that’s a political prediction, not policy advice).
However, as we all know by now, electronic information is a lot harder to control than material objects, and material objects are hard enough to control already.
Every couple years somebody does propose to regulate video games (though it’s usually because they believe that playing violent games makes people more violent in real life).
I’d be more concerned about the non-violent video games. As a kid I actually preferred playing Megaman 64 to going outside because of the false social presence I got from the audio dialogue.
I also think it’s a good bet that after (a) a sufficiently high-profile death (Congressperson’s son) or (b) the problems scale up to where everyone knows someone who lost their job, we’re going to see attempted regulation (that’s a political prediction, not policy advice).
However, as we all know by now, electronic information is a lot harder to control than material objects, and material objects are hard enough to control already.
Every couple years somebody does propose to regulate video games (though it’s usually because they believe that playing violent games makes people more violent in real life).
I’d be more concerned about the non-violent video games. As a kid I actually preferred playing Megaman 64 to going outside because of the false social presence I got from the audio dialogue.