{"id":3683,"date":"2019-05-06T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:26:58","slug":"iraq-government-bans-computer-games-including-pubg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2019\/05\/06\/iraq-government-bans-computer-games-including-pubg\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq government bans computer games including PUBG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraq\u2019s Parliament has voted to ban several games including PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds (PUBG), saying they harm society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Online computer gaming generates billions of dollars around the world and its popularity has also grown in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iraq.html\">Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But parliament has now banned several popular online games, including the biggest of all time, Player Unknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds (PUBG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government says these games are harmful to society and a potential national security threat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera&#8217;s&nbsp;Charles Stratford reports from Baghdad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq\u2019s Parliament has voted to ban several games including PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds (PUBG), saying they harm society. Online computer gaming generates billions of dollars around the world and its popularity has also grown in\u00a0Iraq. But parliament has now banned several popular online games, including the biggest of all time, Player Unknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds (PUBG). The government says these games are harmful to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2019\/05\/06\/iraq-government-bans-computer-games-including-pubg\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}