Online game anti-addiction is not enough to rely on technology alone

According to data recently released by the Shanghai Municipal Consumer Protection Commission, during this year's Spring Festival holiday, the Shanghai Municipal Consumer Protection Commission at all levels accepted a total of 185 complaints related to online games. Among them, some minors in order to bypass the game anti-addiction system, with grandparents' id documents to register, "easy" to play games, especially during the Spring Festival in the late night frequent online, much public concern, but also caused the public to worry about whether the game anti-addiction system is effective.

However, judging from the situation released by the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission, although game companies have realized that minors may use parental identity information to play games, their anti-addiction system has not effectively prevented some minors from playing games. This shows that through the upgrading of technical aspects such as face recognition and fingerprint recognition, many minors can be blocked out of the door of the game, but this cannot solve the problem of addiction once and for all.

Game anti-addiction, to some extent, is the process of fighting wits with the "divine beasts" and even the network black industry, there is a "defense breaking" problem, which has the situation that the "divine beasts" cheated the grandparents to certify, and there is also the problem of the online black industry gang minors having passed the face recognition system. Therefore, for the game anti-addiction system to work, technology alone is not enough, and ultimately it also requires the joint efforts of government departments, parents, and society. (Workers Daily)

Source: Daily Economic News