china limits video games to 3 hours a week on the weekends for minors

[starstationprofm]

Communist country doing communist country things.

In my country, before we killed our piece of shit commie president and got Democracy, they'd put propaganda on the TV all day and you'd only have like 20 minutes of cartoons.

[JohnBrown1917]

Communist country doing communist country things.

In my country, before we killed our piece of shit commie president and got Democracy, they'd put propaganda on the TV all day and you'd only have like 20 minutes of cartoons.

Lmao this sort of policy has nothing to do with communism, all countries put various restrictions on what kids can and cannot do.

[Rennadrel]

Lmao this sort of policy has nothing to do with communism, all countries put various restrictions on what kids can and cannot do.

Sorry but no, most civilized countries don't try and regulate what parents should be doing themselves, which is setting reasonable gaming time like my parents sure as heck did for me.

[JohnBrown1917]

Sorry but no, most civilized countries don't try and regulate what parents should be doing themselves, which is setting reasonable gaming time like my parents sure as heck did for me.

Oh, but they do. You should probably take a good look at your own local laws for all sorts of things kids are not allowed to do in North America and various European countries.

[Draco-Onis]

Sorry but no, most civilized countries don't try and regulate what parents should be doing themselves, which is setting reasonable gaming time like my parents sure as heck did for me.

I am guessing you don't have kids, so many parents want this because they don't want to raise their kids.

[D Luniz]

This is applies to children. Grind your ridiculous axe somewhere else.

they claimed video games are "spiritual opium"
Trust me, they'll come for the adults soon enough.

[JohnBrown1917]

they claimed video games are "spiritual opium"
Trust me, they'll come for the adults soon enough.

Too big of a market. china is a slave too money as much as the US is.

[Rennadrel]

I am guessing you don't have kids, so many parents want this because they don't want to raise their kids.

Anyone who wants such a thing is an idiot, lazy and just demanding their government be more authoritarian and restrict people's rights. Raise your kids right and get involved in their lives, don't be lazy.

[Draco-Onis]

Anyone who wants such a thing is an idiot, lazy and just demanding their government be more authoritarian and restrict people's rights. Raise your kids right and get involved in their lives, don't be lazy.

That's one side of the issue but think of how many times there's a mass shooting and you hear a politician blame it on "violent video games" so that they won't talk about gun reform. Now don't get me wrong this is China being their usual self but let's not kid ourselves a lot of politicians here in the US would do it in a heart beat. That's the side effect of having elected officials who are senior citizens, they don't understand any of this stuff.

[s_bushido]

they claimed video games are "spiritual opium"
Trust me, they'll come for the adults soon enough.

My post was a response to them thinking it was appropriate to bring up jobs and sex work in the context of a restriction on the online playtime allotted to children by an authoritarian government... The ability to criticize obvious government overreach without dragging their own baggage into the topic is clearly a skill they haven't mastered yet.

[Daedius]

How would they even monitor it...?

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it won't be kids playing immortal. But those who are commuting. 2 hours average each way.

And here I was thinking commuting 20 minutes to and back from work at the airport is a bit much already... :V

[Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang]

Too big of a market. china is a slave too money as much as the US is.

Not gonna matter to them : money <<<<<< control.

One only needs to look at what they just did to the private tutoring industry which was estimated to $120 billion, more than 2 times the size of the mobile gaming sector.

[Kallisto]

How would they even monitor it...?

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And here I was thinking commuting 20 minutes to and back from work at the airport is a bit much already... :V

Yup and that's mobile is king out there, everyone has a phone and if you're stuck on a train for 2 hours might as well use it to game.

As for how they would monitor, I think it has something to do with national ID and using it to log into games.

[Very Tired]

So I read kids can just register their online accounts under someone else's name to easily get around this, just like if they really want to learn what democracy is on the internet, they can get around it too. It's not really a big deal.

[Frolk]

Lmao this sort of policy has nothing to do with communism, all countries put various restrictions on what kids can and cannot do.

Correct, this is a Fascist country doing fascist things.

[JohnBrown1917]

Correct, this is a Fascist country doing fascist things.

Lmao this is an even more insane take.

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Not gonna matter to them : money <<<<<< control.

One only needs to look at what they just did to the private tutoring industry which was estimated to $120 billion, more than 2 times the size of the mobile gaming sector.

Wanne bet on it? Because the video game market just keeps on growing. Banning private tutoring was only limited to the Chinese market.

[dope_danny]

As long as adults can be milked for mobile game and live service microtransactions companies will not give two shits.

[Pannonian]

they claimed video games are "spiritual opium"
Trust me, they'll come for the adults soon enough.

I think the "opium" has not so much to do with Marx ("alocohol is the opium of the working class") than to get images into peoples head of the opium wars and the resulting uneven treaties which still is a big topic in china - it's basically Nationalism.

[Draco-Onis]

As long as adults can be milked for mobile game and live service microtransactions companies will not give two shits.

Not really, those adults were minors who got used to playing games these laws are basically eating at future revenues.

[JohnBrown1917]

Not really, those adults were minors who got used to playing games these laws are basically eating at future revenues.

The market exists outside of China too.