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“We know that children who watch a lot of television cannot learn properly,” the minister said on Wednesday evening on the N24- talk show “Links-Rechts”. PC games and games consoles were also “poison” for young people. Zypries emphasised: “The children neither learn social behaviour nor move when they sit in front of these things, but are inundated.” Oettinger had complained about harmful influences from individual television programmes.