Squeaker bans! Hmm. I like it.
I too am a middle aged gamer and I have played for hundreds of hours with thousands of kids and adults alike. I can tell you within 2 minutes which of the squeakers are problem kids and which are not. I’ve had kids tell me online that their fathers are drunks and beat them in the lobbies of multiplayer videogames. There are responsible adults and parents online, which is something a lot of people like to pretend is not real. Still, I couldn’t tell you which problem kid would or would not commit violent acts. That’s a job for psychiatrists (which of course, if they were doing that job nobody would grow up to be a criminal). It seems to me that if you can’t catch ‘em at school, how are you going to catch them online when nobody knows their real name?
Anyway it’s more paranoia that yeilds nothing. Remember Tipper Gore’s music stickers? That really helped.
