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China Plans To Restrict New Games Coming Into the Country and Limit the Time Kids Spend Online (bloomberg.com)
China's regulators plan to curtail the number of online games and discourage play-time, part of a broader effort to tackle device addiction and other ills that sent shares reeling from the U.S. to Japan. From a report: The curbs were just one aspect of a swathe of edicts intended to address the health and growing incidence of myopia among children. But they come on top of a months-long freeze in game approvals, further muddying the waters for an industry that labors under one of the world's most opaque regulatory regimes.
While the new regulations encompassed everything from encouraging outdoor activities to usage of electronics, investors zeroed in on the game curbs during a highly sensitive time for the industry. The government hasn't given any explanation for a freeze on title approvals since March, prompting debate over whether it's a temporary halt due to regulatory reshuffling or whether Beijing is planning a crackdown in a wider campaign against online content. Tencent's inability to monetize its hottest games also cast doubt over the relationship between the world's largest gaming company and the government.
While the new regulations encompassed everything from encouraging outdoor activities to usage of electronics, investors zeroed in on the game curbs during a highly sensitive time for the industry. The government hasn't given any explanation for a freeze on title approvals since March, prompting debate over whether it's a temporary halt due to regulatory reshuffling or whether Beijing is planning a crackdown in a wider campaign against online content. Tencent's inability to monetize its hottest games also cast doubt over the relationship between the world's largest gaming company and the government.
They'll have restricted access to perfectly rendered artificial boobies with bouncy physics.
China sounds like my dad. I prefer when my mom, lady liberty has me on the weekends.
But with Senior Citizens, who suffer greatly being on the Internet.
Just think what we will save without them around.
Alternatively, we could just eat more Soylent Green.
Myopic of them....
Limiting the amount of time kids spend online is a great idea. It's a public health issue. Now the censorship, not so much.
Sure would suck to be an investor in China.
I am certain that staring at close objects can cause myopia, but there are too many "legitimate" reasons to do so for either banning games or limiting online time to prevent it.
If they really want to prevent myopia, use some combination of lenses and significantly larger screens positioned farther away. That might actually prevent myopia.
Of course, the Chinese government's primary goal may be to ban things.
I was born before the PC was invented, and I got myopia the old-fashioned way: by reading a lot of books! I don't think limiting my screen time would have helped.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Their people will back up over other human beings whom they have hit with their cars, because funeral expenses cost less to pay than healthcare, and the fuckers are worried about video games? That's like a first-world country panicking about gun regulations when its schools are under near-constant assault by kids with penis-shaped haircuts. Seriously, people, ban bowl cuts NOW.
so the apple IOS store and google play will be moderated?
What will the hundreds of millions of Chinese kids do online now for fun Windy? Find someone to troll?
Isn't Google playstore blocked in China anyway?
... it's the *WHERE* they spent the hours that has made many parents jumping mad.
I do not mind my kids spending time learning stuffs, like math skills, like programming, like finding and squashing arduino buge, and so on
However, if they decide to 'invest' their time on suicide pacts, hell with it, they can go kill themselves without me paying the net access
+1 INSIGHTFUL MOD UP
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http://factsmaps.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-average-score-of-math-science-reading/
see how the USA ranks
see where Canada is
see where every nation your in trade war with is
see ....what others do works better , might not be for everyone but ...ts doing better then the USA.
facts are hard and i know Americans cant read so let me say china is way ahead of you
your 31st avg for math science and reading
with your worst is reading at 39th
Canada is 2nd in world at reading
clueless - doesn't know how phones work, troll
verdict - troll