Explainer: Why and how China is drastically limiting online gaming for under 18s

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China introduced new rules that limit the amount of time under-18s can spend on video games 🎮 to three hours a week, a move it said was necessary to combat gaming addiction

The new rules place the onus on implementation on the gaming industry and are not laws per se that would punish individuals for infractions.Authorities in China, the world's largest video games market, have worried for years about addiction to gaming and the internet among young people, setting up clinics which combine therapy and military drills for those with so-called "gaming disorders".

Chinese regulators have also targeted the private tutoring industry and what they see as celebrity worship in recent weeks, citing the need to ensure the wellbeing of children.said it would limit play time for some young users of its flagship mobile game "Honor of Kings", a response to complaints from parents and teachers that children were becoming addicted.Read More

In 2019, it passed laws limiting minors to less than 1.5 hours of online games on weekdays and three hours on weekends, with no game playing allowed between 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. It also limited how much minors could spend on virtual gaming items each month, with maximum amounts ranging from $28 to $57, depending on the age.

Online gaming companies must ensure they have put real name verification systems in place, and all titles will eventually need to be connected to an anti-addiction system being set up by the NPPA.it would increase the frequency and intensity of inspections of online gaming companies to ensure time limits were put in place.

 

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I think every country needs to impose this rule. Mainly parents should not give mobile phones in their children hands.. we dint need them, then y do they need it? Parents should be eductaed about screen time & the dangerous of letting children use internet or games

This is the kind of law that we need to implement on the very ultra rich in the USA who think they can get away with pretty much everything, we need to make sure the very fortunate contribute to the country w/o taking it on the middles class or poor people which is not right

China is encouraging teen pregnancy

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I would have gone with 6. Video game addiction is very real. When I first got my computer having wanted one from the time I read about them I turned it off on the most boring day of the week to know I could.

And only in China could something like this actually be enforced

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