China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week
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China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week
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Re: China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week
#2I can't imagine anything more harmful to minors than being exposed to even more communist propaganda, which is what this new restrictions aims to do.
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#3Prohibition didn't work out well elsewhere. I see a new underground
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#4That's less strict than my parents' limits, but I find it really odd that the state is exerting this level of control on what people do with their own* time.
*this may not be a valid assumption
Re: China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week
#5And a whole generation suddenly has reason to resent their government more than their parents.
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#6To me, oppressive. Whatever their aim is, surely it depends on the game.
Quite sure I learnt a lot from Civilization's tech tree @ 10 years old.
An offline game though of course.
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#7That's less strict than my parents' limits, but I find it really odd that the state is exerting this level of control on what people do with their own* time. *this may not be a valid assumption
This all makes sense if the people are seen as property of the state
Re: China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week
#8> Previously, China limited the total length of time minors could access online games to three hours on holiday or 1.5 hours on other days.
Does anyone know how well the previous limit was enforced/how easy it was to evade?
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#9Does anyone more familiar with the matter know if:
- It includes mobile game
- It's actually enforced or just a guideline for parents
- What's the end goal here?
1.5 hours daily sounds very reasonable to me, but 3 hours weekly is so little it doesn't really strike me as reasonable. Although to be clear the state telling it's citizen how much video game time they get sounds very distopian to me.
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