Kids and Teens in China Banned From Playing Online Video Games for More Than 3 Hours Per Week

[macdos]

Well, Europeans and East Asians are identical 1.5 million years ago 🤣

Nah, they were different varieties of H. erectus and other hominins back then.

And before H. sapiens came along some 70k years ago, neandertals were split between H. neanderthaliensis in the West and H. denisova in the East. The rest is about mingling, absorption and some isolation to chisel out the current varieties.

 

[0924487]

Nah, they were different varieties of H. erectus and other hominins back then.

And before H. sapiens came along some 70k years ago, neandertals were split between H. neanderthaliensis in the West and H. denisova in the East. The rest is about mingling, absorption and some isolation to chisel out the current varieties.

Why didn't we have reproductive barriers even from the very beginning?

 

[Nicky G]

Oh, fascism. 😖 But what do you expect from a country actively engaged in ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs?

 

[Jeaz]

Kids and Teens in China Banned From Playing Online Video Games for More Than 3 Hours Per Week Or 3 Hours Per Day?​

Yikes! China is definitely not playing any games.

Even the school times are ridiculous in China.

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I don't know if that's so different to how it's is where I'm from. Sure, schools only start at 8.15-8.30 but no longer than an hour lunch. Usually around 40 minutes. Year runs from early August to a week or two into June, and I spent most of my summers in some sort of summer class (not entirety). There's a break over Christmas for 3 weeks though.

 

[flottenheimer]

So online games are bad while off-line games are fine?

 

[Nicky G]

Seems like turning children into bots rather than intelligent individual is a better idea for them.

Methinks this is definitely the idea, under Chairman Xi. The guy is an ethno-fascist and we’re going to have to deal with it at some point. I’d strongly support massive sanctions against China, immediately. We’re at a point now that is just like pre-WWII when Americans were just happy to do business with the Nazis (IBM, Ford, plenty of others). It’s going to bite us, and the world, in the ass. But I guess propping up dictators is what we’re so good at. *sigh*

 

[Benjamid]

I think a lot of nerds tend to be commies because they don't really understand human beings. Feel free to move to a commie country though.

Oh, wait, no! People vote with their feet and only move to the West, nvm 😅

To the most conservative parts of «the west» like Texas or Bavaria in Germany, where there is cultural pressure to do the right thing.

Seriously, wtf is this comment section? You guys really would prefer the government to do your parenting for you? 🥴

When games start to use psychological tricks like thw Skinner box than it has to be regulated like drugs are now. I see no one complaining about Walmart not selling crack.

 

[0924487]

Huh? Look around. South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore.. all Chinese races. They don't need CCP to be prosper.
You just fully bought the BS, that Chinese needs CCP to be successful. They don't

They are successful partially because of China's market and demand.

They are successful partially because of the US's fear of China's rise. It's the Containment Policy, and Red Scare.

They are successful partially because the US views them as harmless, or so we thought then delivered a death blow to Japan in the end via Plaza Accord.

Those countries are only as important to the US as they are useful against China.

If you carefully analyze Singapore, it's actually a dictatorship. If the US tries as hard to subvert Singapore, which it does all the time, as it is trying to subvert the Chinese government, Singapore will be just like China today.

"They don't need CCP to prosper", yes, but they need it to not become the US's client/vassal states, or pawns.

 

[Nicky G]

Chinese intelligence trolls are having a field day in this thread. But I guess it’s to be expected.

 

[goobot]

America can invade anyone, but they can't conquer anything. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan…

Anyone who invades China also risks becoming part of China. The Xiongnu did. The Mongols did. The Manchu did.

Why isn’t Japan? The American people don’t want to spend money occupying far away lands, it’s a lot easier taking over neighbors.

 

[Luis Ortega]

I’m shocked at the comments supporting this. May your wishes come true and you get to live in a country like China. You’ll love it. I just hope you don’t drag the rest of us.

No worries, they’ll be taking over soon enough while we wallow in our Twitter and mindless social media and our kids grow ever dumber.

 

[macdos]

They are successful partially because of China's market and demand.

They are successful partially because of the US's fear of China's rise. It's the Containment Policy, and Red Scare.

They are successful partially because the US views them as harmless, or so we thought then delivered a death blow to Japan in the end via Plaza Acord.

Those countries are only as important to the US as they are useful against China.

If you carefully analyze Singapore, it's actually a dictatorship. If the US tries as hard to subvert Singapore, which it does all the time, as it is trying to subvert the Chinese government, Singapore will be just like China today.

"They don't need CCP to prosper", yes, but they need it to not become the US's client/vassal states, or pawns.

Plaza accord:

Singapore:

 

[macdos]

Why isn’t Japan? The American people don’t want to spend money occupying far away lands, it’s a lot easier taking over neighbors.

Eh, Japan tried that already… then they got nuked by America before they had the chance to become sinicized.

Now they wouldn't stand a chance, of course.

 

[adib]

I just cannot disagree with you any more here. The Govt should have zero way in what my children do in my home as long as its legal. They can do what they want in China, but as a free Country I won’t ever align with this. Its almost laughable to me that people agree with this type fo thing. But to each his own, just don’t ask me to agree with it because I won’t.

The free country in which pictures of bare-chested ladies are illegal to view as minors but violence are not? Yeah sure.

 

[Whathappened]

I think a lot of nerds tend to be commies because they don't really understand human beings. Feel free to move to a commie country though.

Oh, wait, no! People vote with their feet and only move to the West, nvm 😅

You think China is a communist country? Did they teach you anything at school?
Maybe ask your teacher about how many dictatorships the world has in capitalist countries.

 

[laptech]

China is probably worried for it's next generation of hackers, spies and intellectual property thieves, they don't want them turning out to be good video gamers.

 

[MacGekko]

Chinese intelligence trolls are having a field day in this thread. But I guess it’s to be expected.

Someone else noticed that too, I thought but why would they bother posting on MacRumors, but it seems like no matter the website, if there is a major story on China, you see these random uber Chinese nationalist type posts.

Wake me up when China gets close to the American per capita income, and to the person who compares the U.S. to China in terms of freedoms, that person would break down after a week of having to make a living under that kleptocratic gangster style Chinese government.

 

[MacGekko]

I might be the only person here on Macrumors who has actually been to China.

Let me say this to you: People in China gives a f about you labeling them as "RULED". People just live their daily lives. The government has way fewer interventions into their daily lives than you think and they hate on the government just like anyone else does here.

Hong Kong would like a word.

 

[MacGekko]

"Heavy socialism". Come on man. Even republicans would be appalled by the lack of handouts in China.

Forget about labels, state sponsored corporations are not what Republicans should be about, it should not be what any Americans are about, ghost cities, keep typing, keep that engine running.

 

[jk73]

Hong Kong would like a word.

I felt more free in Hong Kong than I do in any major U.S. city.

 

[MacGekko]

Xi Jinping has one of the highest approval rates of any leader in history according to a Harvard study.

Most people in China don't care about BS gaming laws because they're smart enough to realize 1) gaming IS an addictive waste of time that can destroy young children's minds and 2) everyone's wealth and general access is increasing significantly every few years so there's very few reasons to dislike or get 'fed up' of the government for creating another law that actually serves their best interests.

Locking up billionaires isn't something that most Chinese people think is a bad thing, they celebrate the fact that even billionaires in their country are not exempt from the rules, something the US completely lacks. I've never heard of US bankers getting death sentences or life long prison sentences for corruption. If the CCP really do represent the people, unlike how the US government represents the billionaire class, then billionaires disagreeing with the party is in essence a disagreement with the people themselves.

Technically Saddam Hussein has the highest approval rate record, hopefully Xi won't fall to the same fate, there is always one unhappy camper.

 

[MacGekko]

I felt more free in Hong Kong than I do in any major U.S. city.

You should see a doctor about that.

 

[ian87w]

China and Woke Progressive Liberalism are both complete and utter garbage.

The difference is, China is doing it because they have to lead almost 1.5billion people. I don’t like the things they do, but I can understand why they do it and their perspective.

The woke kids only cherry pick things that can support their current tantrum because it sounds cool to them, without realizing the implications to themselves or others.

 

[jennyp]

Actually, if you spend 10 years researching and thinking about this exact question, you will realize that there is nothing natural about electoral democracy. It’s artificially created through revolution and only existed for only a tiny blip of human society.

All European and East Asian societies are autocratic in the bulk of the recorded history. The Italians tend to be the odd balls, but they still didn’t have electoral democracy, they used a game of chance and successive indirect recommendation system for a brief period.

A corporation is exactly like a government, a school is exactly a government, etc.

You can call anything "natural" if that happens to be the way it is. Being given that label doesn't mean it's good or desirable, or that it's not up for radical change. And democracy wasn't really created by 'revolution' but by the necessity of some kind of principled social contract. The joke is that, in China the doublespeak calls the "party" the "people's" when that's exactly what it isn't, while democracy in the West, though commendable, is limited to a very infrequent vote. Still, as Churchill said (and I paraphrase somewhat), democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. At least there's some mechanism, weak though it might be, to remove them.

 

[macintoshmac]

I understand the premise of this, but this is antipodal to the idea of humanity. This wasn’t the way to go at the issue.

I do wonder what would happen if the world imposes similar restrictions on China as China does on humans. Let’s allow flights only for as many hours as this. Let’s allow trade for only as many hours as this. Etc.

I know I’m sounding absurd, but that’s because this is absurd. I’m waiting for reactions to this from the world and UN.