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Posted: **Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:18 pm**

-Giving video games a more “robust” movie-style age classification.

-Making it illegal for retailers to sell any video game to a child younger than the age rating on the game box. At present, only the most violent and sexually explicit games are regulated.

-Developing a new code of practice aimed at regulating social networking sites, such as Bebo and Facebook, including introducing standards on privacy and harmful content

-Undertaking a new publicity campaign for parents to understand the sort of digital material their children are accessing on the Internet and how they can block it.

-Introducing new laws banning Internet-assisted suicide.

-Creating a national council to implement the strategy.

The British government has reportedly confirmed that all of Byron’s recommendations will be implemented.

What the...? How can the Internet...? I feel like I've been hit with a stick made out of frozen stupid.

Posted: **Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:33 pm**

Most of it makes sense. The rest will be unworkable.

Posted: **Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:19 pm**

Internet-assisted suicide? Is their IQ, like, -15?

Posted: **Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:36 pm**

StRiD@R wrote:Internet-assisted suicide? Is their IQ, like, -15?

They're referring to websites which encourage suicide, often by giving suggestions on how to kill yourself. It's on a similar principle to, say, banning paedophile websites.

Posted: **Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:33 pm**

To be honest I don't see much wrong with anything reported.

And they didn't say new laws. They said

The council should investigate how the law around harmful and inappropriate material could be usefully clarified (including suicide websites) and explore appropriate enforcement responses.

Which basically means, "I don't know what to do about passing a lwa on this so I'm passing the buck" Which was probably the most sensible thing to do.

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