China limits children to three hours of online gaming a week

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China has BANNED children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, as regulators crack down on the technology sector. 9News

can only play games between 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends and on public holidays starting September 1, according to a notice from the National Press and Publication Administration.

The new regulation affects some of China’s largest technology companies, including gaming giant Tencent, whose Honor of Kings online multiplayer game is hugely popular globally, as well as gaming company NetEase. Earlier this month, Tencent said it would limit gaming time for minors to one hour a day and two hours during holidays, as well as ban children under the age of twelve from making in-game purchases.

 

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YOU are surrounded . This is the department of Anti-online gaming . We need you to put the controllers down now and come out with her hands up . This is your first warning ⚠️

Good. Your western parenting is CRAP

This gonna be Australian in 10 yrs or so

Probably so they can focus on taking over the world 😂😉🤔

Is this for real? How on earth are going to enforce it?

China becoming Australia, Australia becoming China! I’m moving to Shanghai! Take me away from communist 🇦🇺

China is turning into turn into a Stalinist nation the population will only be allowed to think what 'Old Joe Xi Ping' will dictate to them

Wonder if they'll be erased too

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