In Turkey, want to ban Minecraft

Popular game Minecraft has attracted the attention of the Turkish authorities, and with an unexpected side. A month ago, the commission of the Ministry of Family and Social Policy начала investigation this computer game on the subject of whether or not it make the list of banned. Yesterday the commission issued a verdict: yes, the game is too violent and be banned.

Report of the Ministry of Family and Social Policy has been sent to the relevant authorities to develop a legal procedure for the implementation of the ban. After that, the court will take the final decision.

"Although it is possible to consider that the game encourages creativity in children, allowing them to build houses, farms and bridges requires killing mobs [hostile creatures] to protect these buildings. In other words, the game is based violence », - сказано in the official report .

Turkish experts fear that children confuse the gaming world with a real and even begin to torment animals.

The report also said that Minecraft lead to "social exclusion", and the online component of the game can lead to Internet harassment of individual members of staff from the rest.

Minecraft is not banned yet in any country of the world. It is known that the Turkish authorities still like censorship row (Twitter, Facebook), but now they are very close to the edge of insanity.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/247060/