Quickie: I Always Knew Watching Naruto Was Dangerous
An Indonesian child apparently managed to strangle himself to death after imitating someone on Naruto (no mention of who, or what they were doing), leading a member of Indonesia’s parliament to call for stricter regulation of broadcast materials.
I’m not exactly sure what he thinks stricter regulation will do, exactly. He’s right that people mistakenly don’t see cartoons as adult and probably don’t take violence in them as seriously as they do in live-action TV, but on the other hand– they don’t seem to censor their live-action TV all that much either. Eh.
Original source: The Jakarta Post
Secondary source:
Tags: censorship, indonesia, naruto
January 21st, 2008 at 10:50 am
Uh, the link leads to an article about trains. Anyway, how the heck did he strangle himself to death? Wouldn’t he pass out first due to lack of oxygen?
January 21st, 2008 at 11:22 am
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January 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
this just baffles me. I could understand like if the fell off a tree and broke their leg or something, but strangled to death? what happens in naruto that results in strangling?
honestly you’d think more people would realize by now that its not the program’s fault. people are morons, and parents that don’t explain or regulate things to their own children are to blame.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:27 am
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January 21st, 2008 at 11:40 am
@flou: Oops, my bad. Fixed, and the link is http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailgeneral.asp?fileid=20080118194743&irec=18
:)
January 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
No one in Naruto hangs themselves and suicides o_O What a bunch of crap lol
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
You forgot to mention the main link concerned that firstly brought the issue to the outside world, which is my blog:
http://foreignprophecies.blogspot.com/2008/01/indonesian-boy-died-after-watching.html
If I hadn’t translated the Indonesian news text in the first place, you people wouldn’t have had heard the news at all.
Here are two sources which I know you have heard the news from, and they firstly knew the news from me:
http://darkdiamond.net/web-notes/boy-dies-from-watching-naruto/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-01-21/indonesian-child-dies-after-imitating-anime-character
You should also check the JAKARTA POST link you put up there. It had already expired, dude. :)
March 10th, 2008 at 9:58 am
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April 1st, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Still refuse to link to my blog???! Hmph!
http://foreignprophecies.blogspot.com/2008/01/indonesian-boy-died-after-watching.html