Posted on 08/30/2021 4:44:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Chinese government has banned under-18s from playing online games for more than an hour a day, and then only between 8pm and 9pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.
The ban will be enforced by online gaming companies which are now required to strictly enforce rules requiring users to register accounts with their real identities in order to play.
It follows shares in China's biggest online gaming companies slumping after state media branded their products "spiritual opium" and compared them to "electronic drugs" earlier this month.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
It should be no minutes, while the requirement to register means Big Brother is watching.
Good for China !
I credit my early interest in video games for my mastery of the computer and the development of my problem solving skills.
That said, everything is best in moderation. And, in any case, this is a parental issue, not a government one.
The ChiComs banning their youth from gaming more than an hour a day is the height of nanny-style totalitarianism. The Democrats would love to control our lives in this way.
I also doubt its necessity. The Chinese, who ordinarily engage in semi-torture of their children when it comes to education, would never let their children actually burn their lives down gaming.
More than likely, this will just make the average Chinese student, who is already stressed out, even more burned as the government dictates what they can and can’t do during what little free time they have.
I agree with you. I am SHOCKED that people on FR would support this kind of blatant restriction on freedom.
Good grief, people!
This overreach will do more to turn the Chinese people away from Communism than anything they ever did to the Uyghurs.
You are absolutely correct. It shouldn’t be an either/or choice. What is it with parents?
China’s getting bizarre, again.
The scary thing is that they know who is playing the online games, What they play, when they play, how long they play....
....And probably everything they say while their computers are turned on.
Lots of ways to develop problem solving and even computer skills without making ignorant, antisocial zombies of our youth.
I teach at the college level and there is a sad, ineffectual detachment about too many young men in particular. (And yeah, the regular educational system is a major contributor there as well.)
And as I thought I had made clear, I’m not for this sort of totalitarianism at all.
—”at least give them points for trying. “
Sounds good at first, then I recall, “absence makes the heart grow fonder”.
There will be workarounds and patches and more workarounds.
All of which might sharpen their skills?
Thank God, finally, some common sense.
I thought this was supposed to be a conservative site,but all I see is people cheering government domination over minors just because they don’t like video games. I play online for multiple hours a day when not working, and I DARE someone to take that from me.
By limiting the gaming to only one hour, and only 8 to 9 pm, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holidays, they are nearly shutting down video gaming completely for under eighteens (if they are successful in enforcing it). Almost nobody wants to play a video game for only one hour, it takes that long just to get warmed up, so why even bother at all?
I wonder if these restrictions will be enforced in Hong Kong.
In the long term, I think these kinds of restrictions will backfire on the communists, they will be creating a generation of annoyed young men who will equate the idea of communism with ‘no fun’.
Social media is much worse than games.
This is one totalitarian law that I could get behind!
Now they’ll have to remake the movie Idiocracy to show the chinese as our overlords in year 2505.
I believe the parents should monitor it, not the government. That said,if parents won’t do parenting, government will, and I’m afraid it might happen...
Re: Post #22. We agree 100% with you statement.
Anyone who gives this idea a cheery two thumbs up should hold their own Political Philosophy Reveal Party, come out as a leftist, self-zot, and join DU.
There’s a bunch on here.
Apparently Fascism and tyranny are okay if you don’t like what others are doing.
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