Posted on 08/02/2023 1:49:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chinese children and teens will be cut off from accessing the internet at night and have their smartphone use curbed under new rules unveiled on Wednesday (Aug 2) aimed at fighting internet addiction.
Under the restrictions, set to come into force on Sep 2 following a public consultation, anyone under the age of 18 will be cut off from accessing the internet with a mobile device between 10pm and 6am. A tiered system for managing smartphone usage time will also be imposed, spanning a maximum of 40 minutes a day for those under the age of eight to two hours for 16 and 17-year-olds. The new rules - proposed by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) - are some of the most stringent in the world.
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Like a drug dealer who doesn’t let their kids use the product.
Totalitarianism.
State are your parents.
The Communist Party is good.
Yes. There’s more to it than meets the eye.
Will they revolt?
Heard from a guy who visited China in the 2010s.
He said everywhere he went the younger people watched MTV style videos and shows that had Western freedom shown and TV shows that had our cars, fashions and material goods. Many Chinese had bicycles. He said they were upset China was so backward and that their desires were pent up and growing. But their economy was not.
Supposedly Iran has a silent generation with desires for freedom and fashions they cannot have.
They’re aiming, in their totalitarian way, for their children to grow up with brains—unlike modern American children.
Too much true, though for evil purposes.
Fweedom
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