The CCP is going to attempt to make sure its kids don’t fall prey to the evils of excessive video gaming by making sure its youth cannot play video games more than 3 hours a week, and even then, only on fridays, saturdays, and sundays.
The CCP can enforce this because their big tech walks closely beside them in censoring, filtering, controlling, monitoring the users on their social media platforms. As a matter of fact, you can’t even get on the internet without a face scan, and that face scan better be attached to a good social credit score or no video game time for you. Who knows, maybe Uncle will visit you in the middle of the night and question your choice of using a darker red to color the communist flag the other day at school. Who knows?
There is another significant tradeoff the Chinese have made here that could be very telling. The Chinese are throwing away a massively huge potential low-invest high-reward mobile game market not just for its own developer but for foreign ones as well, and that removes a LOT of incentive for a LOT of American companies to suddenly be less intersted in buidling within the CCP-correctness code of video gaming in pursuit of the massive youth gaming market that is still mostly untapped.
China video game ban for children raises questions
From fortune.com
2021-08-30 22:53:26
Excerpt:
Chinese children will soon be restricted from playing video games more than three hours weekly, the country’s regulators said Monday. National playtime, the Communist Party kids you not, is scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time.
Weekday gaming? Banned, for youths, starting Wednesday.
China is framing its heavy-handed nannying as being for its people’s own good—an antidote to “spiritual opium,” the since-stricken label a state media outlet used to criticize video games some weeks ago. In an article announcing and justifying the government’s rationale, the Chinese state-sponsored media outlet Xinhua, cited by Reuters, quoted a spokesperson as saying that “protecting the physical and mental health of minors is related to the people’s vital interests, and relates to the cultivation of the younger generation in the era of national rejuvenation.”
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