Video Game Addiction: It’s Real and Potentially Harmful

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Jan 29, 2015 For most consumers, playing video games is a harmless pastime, but for others it spirals out of control and becomes an addiction with very real offline consequences. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert: NSA Is Distracting Us From FBI’s ‘Great Snooping’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2013 The National Security Agency has been plastered all over the news since Edward Snowden leaked documents showing how widespread American surveillance is. But, as the late night pundit points out, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is also doing a pretty darn good job playing Big Brother. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

World of Spycraft

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World of Spry Craft

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Spy Agencies Infiltrate Online Games

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 10, 2013 In recent years, the NSA and Britain's GCHQ have turned their legally dubious spying efforts to the world of online gaming, which documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden and obtained by The Guardian, The New York Times and ProPublica described as a "target-rich communications network" in which intelligence targets could "hide in plain sight." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chinese Prisoners Forced Into Gaming for Guards

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2011 Hard manual labor is one time-honored method of putting prisoners to work, but Chinese jail bosses have caught on to another lucrative way to keep inmates occupied while lining their own pockets: online gaming. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google Might Not Be Sorely Missed in China

Staff / Truthdig Feb 2, 2010 It certainly did sound dramatic, the whole idea that execs at Google were throwing down the virtual gauntlet and threatening to pull out of China after clashing with the government over censorship, but it turns out that there hasn't exactly been an uproar among the Chinese about the possibility of losing Google's services. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )