You do realize the 70's were 45 years ago right, and the world has changed?
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Kids and Teens in China Banned From Playing Online Video Games for More Than 3 Hours Per Week
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"Parents are busy working."
Figure out how to work AND raise your children.
This is not an either or proposition---it's your CHILDREN for God's sake---find the time to manage what they do on their devices.
If you don't make the time, you're shirking your parental duties.
But I guess some people would rather outsource their parenting responsibilities to the government.
Disgusting.
I don't think the poster was using "commie" in the sense of an actual communist, but more as a short hand for leftist.
I think you know that also.
And if you don't think Silicon Valley is full of leftists, you haven't been paying attention.
I think it’s rather telling that many gamers response to this has been so vitriolic. It’s like an addict having their pipe taken away.
Modern multiplayer games have been specifically designed to keep players engaged for hours and constantly spending more money on various do dads. In short they’ve been designed to be addictive because that’s what makes the most money.
Sure, our view on kids and media here in the west has always been “let the parents do the parenting”, but at the same time we don’t let children go into a casino and play slots, that’s illegal.
If we treated Video Games like a drug then people would be crying to ban it outright.
Modern multiplayer games have been specifically designed to keep players engaged for hours and constantly spending more money on various do dads. In short they’ve been designed to be addictive because that’s what makes the most money.
Sure, our view on kids and media here in the west has always been “let the parents do the parenting”, but at the same time we don’t let children go into a casino and play slots, that’s illegal.
If we treated Video Games like a drug then people would be crying to ban it outright.
Some people perpetually need a mommy and daddy. Others, would rather the government raise their child than invest the time and effort to teach them proper life habits.
How about you be a parent? Huh?
First off, give them full freedom. And, if that doesn't work, here's a simple solution…
At the end of the night, take your kid's controllers / game devices and lock them away. Then, the next day, the ticket to buy their gaming gear back for the evening is their finished homework that you inspect. Finished homework equals golden ticket to game land. And, during the summer, you give them controllers for x amount of hours a day. Your kid acted like a douche in the store today (even after repeat warnings), then no games tonight. Simple.
First off, give them full freedom. And, if that doesn't work, here's a simple solution…
At the end of the night, take your kid's controllers / game devices and lock them away. Then, the next day, the ticket to buy their gaming gear back for the evening is their finished homework that you inspect. Finished homework equals golden ticket to game land. And, during the summer, you give them controllers for x amount of hours a day. Your kid acted like a douche in the store today (even after repeat warnings), then no games tonight. Simple.
They do it for the same reason the Russians do — to get in our heads and hack and destabilize our culture. It’s all they really have, but alas, it works all too well, because nobody seems to have come up with the idea to teach internet literacy in our schools (plus we have so many crazy Americans who have bought into weaponized contrarianism, anything that they perceive “owns the libs” is seen as a good thing).
In China, Xi would vastly prefer that he and his state cronies be the parental figures for all children, versus, you know — their actual parents. But he’s a fascist totalitarian gangster, so this is to be expected I suppose. The goal is to turn all Han Chinese into automatons, and ethnically cleanse away all other populations.
Japan is a superior country to China any day of the week.
P.S. Hong Kong and Taiwan are NOT China.
I believe it’s just tencent that‘s voluntarily doing that, not a legal mandate on all gaming companies. That can also be circumnavigated by having an adult to authenticate.
I would assume like many other child protection policies reporting is a requirement to prove compliance, so it’s built into the system rather than a back door.
Yeah right…
Hong Kong is China per definition: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Taiwan is China per definition, per UN resolution, and per Taiwan constitution ("Free area of the Republic of China").
That means not everyone should be given a chance to vote, in order to protect the intellectual integrity of the result. This would solve the problem and we would have an efficient and effective government.
As a side note, do you know anything about gerrymandering in the US? You think this is democratic? We don’t really have democracy in the US anymore, we just have the illusions of it, and this is precisely the worst way to lose it because it’s going in the wrong hands. Sigh.
It's really sad, isn't it? This is what teaching a couple of generations of US children that their country (the most welcoming and tolerant in the world mind you) is an insidious place that needs to start over from scratch with a central government telling people what is best for them. Pathetic.
The same one that ended with Robespierre’s la terreur and Napoleon and then back to a monarchy within the span of 3 decades? That‘s a rather bleak definition of a “true” revolution with little in the way of permanent regime change.
HK was successful because China needed HK to trade with the world, I think. Now China doesn’t need it anymore, and it’s falling apart.
HK under British was never poor, but what types of people do you think holds the wealth, and where do you think that wealth came from? It’s the rich old White men looting China with the help of gunships residing in HK with Chinaman as peasants. You think those peasants had democracy? Stop kidding me. You think those peasant Chinamen could intermarry with White women and go to the UK or America as they please? You think they were as equals to their White overlords? You think they could vote them out?
All of them can grow initially, but they needed China’s market to continue their growth. They would have slowed down considerably otherwise.
Even today, how much money in Singapore is Chinese money or American money going in and out of China?
Who is the number one trading partner of Taiwan?
Dude, even Australia!
I don't necessarily disagree with you. However, if we got back to being a true republic where "all politics are local", there wouldn't be such "grave" consequences of national elections. They just shouldn't have the impact that we have given them, but they do because we are OK with out of control bureaucracy.
It seems to me that you are not particularly well-informed. The majority of Hong Kong is and has always been pro establishment and pro mainland since the handover in 1997, as any election result since will tell you. That little clique of black clad deslusional brats destroying the subway is not representative for Hong Kong.
As for Taiwan, it is a matter of generation. Younger people are more likely to see themselves as "taiwanren", while older people regard themselves as both Chinese and Taiwanese. The population is split 50/50 regarding the issue of "independence".
Millions of Taiwanese have their livelihood on the Mainland, and so at least some seem to want that "garbage".
I don’t know if you are kidding but even a cursory knowledge of US history would tell you that‘s not true. Jim Crow? Johnson-Reed Act? Japanese internment camps? Chinese exclusion act? Even modern day US has some of the strictest immigration policies among developed nations.
And they banned 'stars', and 'over achievers'. Yikes...
Micromanaging the populous is generally not a great idea.
Micromanaging the populous is generally not a great idea.