Quote from lemondude
Or a art form that clearly outlines how a crime is committed.
a lot of people are saying that people can't prove games, manga, tv are the cause, but you also can't prove that it isn't.
As for where I got my information on crime rate going up. You guys heard of the internet? Magazines? The news?
But just because we can't prove it doesn't increase crime, should we then monitor everything just
because it could happen? If so we would have to monitor TV, video games, things that go on when one's out shopping, things said on the bus and so on into infinity/dictatorship.
You're mentioning the Internet... if it's about art clearly outlining how a crime is committed isn't the internet worse? You can do a quick search and immediately find out how to make a bomb or find out how to perform other criminal acts. Should we then monitor the internet as well (which is said to be there in order to increase the freedom for people?). And don't even get me started on movies... There's tons of movies about the perfect crime, especially with the trend of anti-heroes and the like.
And yeah, news... I'm a journalist in the making so I know well enough about media and the way it reports certain stuff. But in many situations media is quite good at blowing things out of proportion. It seems there's still this naive belief that media is always impartially reporting about things that go on in the society. People tend to forget that journalists and media as a whole also needs money to exist. Media is very much controlled by supply and demand. They report on things that make people buy newspapers or raise their watcher stats. They go for things that give good headlines. So just because something is reported in the newspaper doesn't mean it's 100% true or unbiased. There's stats that've been tampered with (most often not by the journalists themselves, although it has happened), too little or wrong information and more. Journalists are under extreme pressure these days and have to report things quickly, especially with the increased net journalism, and so checking their sources, digging deeper into the topic and so on is neglected to an alarming degree.
Quote from lemondude
many people say they don't want the government involved in their lives, but when the rescission hit, the government is not getting involved enough.
Well, of course, humans are like that. We're never satisfied. But it's a far stretch between monitoring/censoring literature and the likes and handling the country's finances/making sure people don't get hit too hard by the recession.
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