[murph-almighty]

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Actually though this is a fucking big brother atrocity of a policy that people will inevitably circumvent and the government will pick and choose when to enforce.

[godelski]

Except the people aren't our enemy. We're worried about an authoritarian government harming our friends.

[docmars]

My initial (and final) interpretation was:

1. The people being enforced will find ways around these laws, naturally because it's considered unreasonable and overreaching in some regards.

2. In doing so, the government will selectively enforce these rules based on the limited amount of information or surveillance used to enforce these rules, so those who are busted for breaking them will pay the price, while others who are breaking the rules without getting caught will not pay the price.

I'm not trying to insult anyone's intelligence by breaking this down, but it's worth clarifying the scenarios.

While I agree with the GP's sentiment (it's very much overreaching into the private lives of its citizens who may wish to decide for themselves (or their family) how they spend their free, recreational time), the argument is no different from the fact that many DUI offenders never get caught while some do and pay the penalties.

I don't think this is a strong enough argument to mount a realistic protest against it, but it's a small factor that's unequivocally true -- many will get away with gaming longer than 3 hours anyway.

Gaming longer than 3 hours will give youth a good thrill at least. ;)

Jokes aside, this policy sucks.

[teawrecks]

The CCP is the one making the mistake, not the people. No one said it was the people.

[dang]

You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly, using multiple accounts. I've banned two of them. If you don't want your main account to be banned, please stop abusing the site like this.

This has nothing to do with your particular opinions; we don't know, or care, what those are. We ban accounts that repeatedly post flamebait comments regardless of what they're flaming for or against. No more of that, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html