Agreed, I have close to two decades experience of living & working in China with the vast majority posting having no clue or real life experience of the country or the people, let alone the culture.
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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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In America, game contents are protected by “free speech”. The gaming lobby groups won a Supreme Court case on this.
Do because parents are working the Govt has the right to decide what kids can and cannot do? Every generation pulls this garbage. When the TV came out it was “TV is rotting kids brains.” Then game consoles game out and it was “Atari and Nintendo are ruining kids lives.” Now its online gaming. Its complete nonsense. Parents can limit online gaming by simply taking the devices away. There, problem solved.
Also, these same people making these decisions are most likely kids who played Mario World until their eyes bugged out of their heads.
They should hammer on Korea’s flower boy influencers too in China. The K-Pop pretty boys are just not sustainable for a healthy gender dichotomy.
Uh there is already a thing called Screen time where parents can completely disable all aspects of a device except the ones they want kids to have access to.
If you don’t play video games growing up, and developed other productive hobbies, you wouldn’t play video games when you have the option to, like me and many others like me.
Just like alcohol, cigarettes, and dope.
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Are there some kids who are addicted? Sure. But the vast majority are not. This is a ridiculously excessive and authoritarian way of dealing with a much smaller issue. It’s a bad idea.
Over 50% of American kids age 5 and up are overweight or obese. Should we wait until it gets to 75% before maybe making some changes?
Exactly! I’m pretty sure it’s called parenting. But for some reason people want the government to do it for them? Lol. SMH.
Or, you know, you could not assume that one size fits all. Plenty of well adjusted kids play games, which are more than just “parking on the couch”.
You might be shocked to know that those of us who enjoyed playing games as kids are the same people who make it possible for you to use the computer/smartphone you are using to make your comments on this forum.
You might also be further shocked to know that we enjoy other hobbies too! Like reading, sports, cooking, etc.
We go to university, get jobs, have families even!
Video games aren’t the boogie man. They are not societies great evil.
If you don’t enjoy them, no problem, but don’t blame them just because they aren’t your particular cup of tea.
That's pre-pandemic thinking.
Can governments do better? Sure. A compromise would be to require online games to built parental controls to their respective systems. But that won't motivate "free-to-play" games to comply, and of course videos of people playing games.
Sadly many of the commenters in this forum seem to hold the same simplistic views.
Educational games typically do not need an constant online connection from my experience. If you really think your child should be able to play online games outside of those hours, it seems like you can just let them use your account to get around the rules.
Gen-X'er here. My kids play way less video games than this already, but we homeschool. What passes for socialization now is insane amounts of peer pressure on social media, having a smartphone, and playing a money-dump game like Fortnight. Epic, Google, Apple, Zuck, etc. get richer, while we all get dumber. No, instead our kids read good books, play outside, and can talk competently and respectfully to people of all age groups, including their peers. It's really hard at times, but you have to step us as a parent and help your kids navigate through an insane world. The state doesn't do much of anything out of love--that's your job, parents. More state intervention is only going to make things worse, IMO--a generation with no respect for their parents, with great fear of the state, begging for whatever it offers. It'll make some really good worker bees, though.
Over 50% of American kids age 5 and up are overweight or obese. There are a lot of bad parents out there. The numbers are the numbers.
The dictatorship in China is very delicate. It may seem the president Xi has all the power, but he doesn’t. If the Politburo decides that he is unfit for presidency, they will vote to remove him, which almost happened during his early days as the president. He was only saved by the former Chinese president Hu, whom vetoed the movement.
The one-part autocracy in China is also not dangerous, because it’s in-check by the people, if the government does‘t perform, then it will be replaced via a revolution. But since the party and the government are so big, they include all the talents in the society, most changes can be done from within via evolution instead of revolution, which is better for China. The CIA tried for decades to subvert the Chinese government and to cause a revolution, but without success. Their tricks just don’t work in China, where people can see it right through.
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And where’s your proof that video games are the reason for that? Probably right up there with your anti-vaxx made up nonsense.
To make a blanket statement like that just proves that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
What revolution when he's controlling all the military? Like Tiananmen revolution perhaps? You're kidding yourself if you think that's gonna happen. In their entire history Chinese people never have a say in political power. It's one elite after another. China ain't no France.
You might not be up to date if you don't think Xi has consolidated his power almost absolutely. He will be chairman (communist party doesn't have president. Don't give him that credential) for life.
They will. Just look at what republicans are trying to do to moderates and liberals in the USA…
Yes, I hope the Republicans in Antifa and the Republicans in BLM stop rioting and looting in our cities. Enough is enough.