The gaming software Innogames is against responsible parenthood.
Recently, I have been banned from playing an on-line game because I monitor my kid’s use of the internet.
Go figure…
In this day and age, when we constantly hear how cybercrime is propagating right before our fingertips, it is imperative for a parent to monitor what their children do on the internet. However, Innogames’ business practices are geared towards penalizing proper parent supervision.
My two youngest kids and I play an online game called Grepolis, created by Innogames. I started the accounts for them and I monitor their email messages. I have also sent from my children accounts emails to people writing to them to let them know that the account was being monitored by a responsible adult.
My youngest is an 11 year old girl with a minor learning disability. Her teachers have suggested that we do fun activities that involve learning to follow sequential steps. As she was interested on the game, I thought that it was going to be a positive experience for her to play this game. Throughout the months playing, she was in need of assistance during the game. As any good parent would do, I offered my help. However, it seems that it is against Innogames rules for a father to help his little girl.
As a result of my monitoring activities and my help to my daughter, I was banned from playing the game for a brief period of time. However, that ban was turned into a permanent one after talking to a Senior Moderator named “Lord Asriel,�? whose robotic responses appeared to be from a tyrannical bureaucrat. I just tried to explained in a very polite and restrained manner, that it was imperative for me to monitor my kids use of the internet and to help them when they need or ask for my help. I have the correspondence exchanged with him to prove this point.
In summary, Innogames’ rules are against parents monitoring their children’s account and even against parents assisting their children when the kids ask for help in some game related activity.

What gives Innogames the right to act with such impunity, carelessness for Internet safely, and the complete disregard for the basic parent/child relationship?