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Tencent Will Soon Require Chinese Users To Present IDs To Play Its Video Games (theverge.com)
China's Tencent will soon require gamers to prove their ages and identities against police records, according to a new official statement yesterday. Under the new system, users will need to register their Chinese national IDs in order to play any games from Tencent. The Verge reports: Ten mobile games will get the new verification system by the end of the year, and all games offered by Tencent, including PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and League of Legends, will get the system by 2019. Tencent has been criticized by state-run People's Daily, which called Arena of Valor "poison," after reports that students were ditching their homework to play the mobile game.
Tencent has also faced direct regulatory pressure this summer, after President Xi Jinping pointed out that too many children were nearsighted and said the government was taking action. Beijing officially ruled to ban new games, cementing an unofficial pause that started back in March, costing Tencent up to $1.5 billion in lost revenue as it was unable to launch games it had been developing. In September, Tencent imposed the new verification system on Arena of Valor and created a feature that blurs the screen if minors look too closely at it. The new system simply enforces rules that Tencent had in place since last year: barring gamers who are 12 and under from playing more than an hour a day and establishing a curfew of 9PM. Those who are 13 to 18 can play up to two hours a day. Still, the system won't prevent minors from borrowing the phones of their parents and other adults.
Tencent has also faced direct regulatory pressure this summer, after President Xi Jinping pointed out that too many children were nearsighted and said the government was taking action. Beijing officially ruled to ban new games, cementing an unofficial pause that started back in March, costing Tencent up to $1.5 billion in lost revenue as it was unable to launch games it had been developing. In September, Tencent imposed the new verification system on Arena of Valor and created a feature that blurs the screen if minors look too closely at it. The new system simply enforces rules that Tencent had in place since last year: barring gamers who are 12 and under from playing more than an hour a day and establishing a curfew of 9PM. Those who are 13 to 18 can play up to two hours a day. Still, the system won't prevent minors from borrowing the phones of their parents and other adults.
Can you still play video games in chinese muslim internment camps?
They are really Uyghur internment camps, not for muslims in general. The Hui people are muslim, but generally more assimilated than the Uyghurs, and none of them are interned.
Or are games only for non muslim chinese?
Anyone can play them. Only about 10% of the Uyghur population is interned, so the other 90% can play video games if they like. The CCP would prefer that over young men going to the mosque and causing trouble. Video games tend to have a pacifying social effect. It is the opium of the people.
I actually do find that it is healthier to keep kids away from overdosing on video games, rather encourage them to do more physical world social activities. The iron-fist way China approaches the issue can be debated, of course. But since becoming a dad of 2 year old twins I think quite a lot about good ways for them to explore and play. Currently they have almost no screentime (a bit of Peppa Pig etc every two days) and I intend to keep it that way, increasing the use of TV, ipads, videogames in moderation over time and rather let them play in other ways. I have seen other kids who are utterly addicted to video consoles and will not let that happen. I don't plan to be heavy handed about it, rather hope to enable them to find interest and joy in many other ways. Recently they started enjoying drawing scribbles with crayon for example, they were inspired by me often drawing little things for them. Parenting is a challenge, but so rewarding.
To spend it wisely, "screen time" could equal genius if spent correctly.
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I also played Tencent's game, I really encountered the problem of authentication, but I support it. Now Tencent's game makes many minors addicted. I also saw a video yesterday. It is a child playing games on the mobile phone. After collecting the mobile phone, the child violently beat the parents and looked terrible.
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Yes, that is the key. Spend the screentime wisely and don't get addicted to a dumb game. Nothing wrong with constructing something virtually in minecraft for example. Anyway, at this moment my twins are too young for much screen time anyway. As I wrote, a bit of Peppa Pig is wonderful, TV is on only a few minutes every other day.
Good on China for only forcing some Muslims into concentration camps
They are not forced into internment camps because they are muslims, but because they are separatists.
Clearly they have learned from the British and Americans follies
Indeed. Time for some Whataboutism: British internment camps, were the first to target an entire population, and had a mortality rate of 50%. American internment camps during the Philippine-American War had a mortality rate of about 20%. There are no reports of excess deaths in the Chinese camps, so they still have some catching up to do.
Ebay just locked me out of the account I've had for years and years. Why? They want to know my real identity. They either wanted to send a text to my cell, call me voice, or have me upload a scan of my ID card. I used Ebay for a long time with no problems, and now suddenly they want my infoz? Let's clean our own house before we criticize others for doing the exact same thing.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Oh, well that clearly makes it all okay.
I never said it was "okay", and I certainly don't think it is. Explaining something and putting in context is not the same as approval.
Does Beijing pay you in yuan or imperialist Yankee petrodollars?
Bitcoin.
You have to watch China Uncensored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
China is East Germany on steroids.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
This is the only way to deal with the addiction engineering that drives game design. Gambling was its origin, now these mobile platforms abuse the same methods to siphon money from children. That vulnerable group is damaged in more ways than financial, while the eyesight link is dubious the social impact and academic impacts are absolutely real. China's approach may seem draconian but put aside your default bias for a moment. This option links a game player to an account, not just to a phone. To open that account the ID must be presented, so it would require children to steal their parents' ID, which is a major issue in itself and 100% a direct sign of addiction if it is done.
The Spanish invented concentration camps in 1896 in Cuba, so the British and Americans later just imitated them. Then the Italians in Libya imitated the British and Americans, and the Nazis made the Italian version even more lethal.
while the eyesight link is dubious
Video games directly causing eyesight degradation is dubious (as in you need to use some magic filter glasses to avoid your eyes dying slowly when looking at screens).
There is some corpus of evidence (including studies done in Japan that predate widespread use of smartphones) that somewhat link decreased time spent outside (outdoor activities in sunshine) with increasing need for prescription glasses (not simply explainable by increased reporting due to higher reporting).
And some phenomenon replicated in lab by sewing semi-shut eyelids of apes (still an aweful thing to do in my opninion).
It looks like there is something causing eyes to get myopia when they spend more time looking to close object under faint lights (indoor, evenings) rather than far away in the sunshine.
From that point of view, video games are simply yet another distraction from outdoor activities (as were books when the first such studies were started) whose reduction could have some play in degrading eyesight.
But I don't think outlawing games like totalitarian China is doing is a great solution to the problem.
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The thing is there is no such thing as "video game addiction". People really tend to get bored with games, not something you'd expect to happen with proper,real addiction. It's just bad time management skills, they can lead to conflicts. Games is just one of millions of things over which a neglected child would make a tantrum over.
Except that is wrong. And people have died form this addiction. The business of video games is as unscrupulous as all gambling houses throughout history. They really don't care what the games do to you, as long as they get paid.
Your argument is flawed.
Every time Valve CATCHES a cheater, they get paid again.
Every time they miss one, they don't get paid.
It's therefore in their interest to catch as many as they can, as often as they can, and make the barrier to entry high (i.e. you can't just wander into a free game without having made a purchase of tied in a credit card, etc.).
If a cheater persists for any length of time, Valve get NOTHING for all that disruption, except unhappy customers, for all the time it persists, until they remove the offender.
I have no doubt that they'd rather be paid every time someone needs to re-create a Steam account (which they effectively are - non-purchase accounts are very limited in what they can do) than a one-off identity of a gamer who could be banned for life, but it's vastly in their interest to let that same idiot back in and then IMMEDIATELY ban him.
Cheaters don't persist in gaming because they are spending money, however. They persist because they are stealing / hijacking accounts, or are able to join servers without any kind of initial fee being paid. Having a "free-to-play" game is the problem.
The difference is, people are blaming video games for their actions(or lack thereof). People aren't blaming partying and social life when a toddler starves to death, or dies from dehydration. Rather they state that the person was inept and criminally responsible for their own actions. That's the difference between the two. It's a easy way out, and video games are just the latest round of *insert satanic bogeyman that kills kids/people/offends the ancestors*
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Bacon oath ? I do so swear on this BLT that I am not of the Islamic faith. I believe there is a specific clause that allows Muslims to forswear the faith while in the pursuit of a fatwah or jihad.
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You've gotta hand it to China, they've really hit the ground running with the whole "build a grim technological dystopia" gambit.
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