Norway also ban: Alcohol, smoke, gaming, all ads to children, all gun related, not allowed to count points in games before children are 13, credit card loans, all health related than can’t show scientific benefit..
> Norway also ban: Alcohol, smoke, gaming
Gaming, as in like video games and board games are banned? Seriously?
I am fairly certain they mean gaming as in gambling. Would be a bit weird to ban video game ads, surely?
Hard gaming vs Soft gaming
Scandinavian translation difficulty: the word for a gambling game here is ‘spel’ or game (at least in Swedish), a video game is a ‘datorspel’ or computer game.
My typo - Should be gambling and all games involved money. The only one allowed is governmental and all the profit from that game go back to sports for kids, and “they” are closely monitoring that you don’t get gambling addicted to that game by forcing you to only play with a personal ID.
It's common usage in US English. eg, https://gaming.nv.gov/ do not regulate video games.
No. Gambling ads are not allowed though. Neither alcohol or smoking are banned, but ads for them are.
> not allowed to count points in games before children are 12
So it's illegal in Norway for my 12-year-old cousin to beat my highscore in Pacman?
As organized sport, yes.
Maybe you're just not allowed toccount the points and have to pretend to let them win? :)
I recently visited the US for a conference. The moment I landed, I started getting medicine adverts on websites. It was rather jarring.
Gotta be prepared.
It's like, if you go to Australia you have to wear sunblock. If you go to the USA, wear adblock.