Iraq bans its citizens from playing Fortnite and PUBG

The Iraqi government has chosen to ban the popular battle royale games Fortnite and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds because of their detrimental influence on society. A Reuters report said the ban was imposed “because of the negative effects some electronic games have had on the health, culture and safety of Iraqi society, including the social and moral threats to children and adolescents.”

Moqtada al-Sadr, a Shia cleric and former head of the Mahdi Army militia that fought the government and US-led occupation forces from 2004-2008, warned that PUBG could be addictive and asked the government to ban it last week.

“What will you get if you kill one or two people in PUBG? This is not a game for intelligence or a military game that gives you the right way to fight, ”al-Sadr wrote in a statement released last week.

The reaction to the ban was so negative it wasn’t that people were angry that they couldn’t play Fortnite. Maybe, but the real problem is that Iraq made the ban for the sake of government and is unwarranted.

Whereas Iraq continues to struggle with sectarian violence, inadequate infrastructure, and political instability, the state parliament has only managed to pass one piece of law since sitting down in September 2021, the 2021 federal budget law passed in January.

This game ban follows the blockade of PUBG in Nepal, although Fortnite there still allows.

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