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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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My guess....regardless of my stance on this.....is you have no kids.
I'm not comparing now vs 1980s.
Video games weren't nearly as common in the early 2000s vs now. Yet there wasn't much of an increase. The biggest increase was in the decades leading up to 2000.National Obesity Monitor - State of Childhood Obesity
stateofchildhoodobesity.org
Lots of things were happening then. More people eating out, more fast food, even changes in demographics.
Huh? Your own source says this: “According to NHANES, there was a significant increasing trend in youth obesity rates from 1999–2000 to 2015–2016.”
This doesn’t seem to really affect parental control all that much tbh. If a parent really wanted to let their child play they can just play from the parent’s account. This just sets the default for most under age players and only for always connected online game platforms.
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.
I’m not disputing that. But that doesn’t change that this type of thing would do little for obesity rates. You can take away every single thing that would keep a kid from sitting at home but if their diet is poor, and most obese children’s diets are, it won’t do a thing for them. You cannot ever outwork a bad diet, and that is Indisputable.
Limiting people from voting illegally. You know, in all 50 states, you can vote with nothing but a first and last name if you answer "no address" and "no SSN." So far I've also seen that you can do that by mail.
Why exactly are you opposed to a national ID? Cause there are totally reasons to oppose it, but they're all the same reasons Republicans tout for other freedoms.
Oh, I like freedom, so long as it’s productive for the nation, the community, and the people around you.
Yeah, but the greater effect is that the Chinese govt will require more backdoors into game companies to know if any kids are playing too long. Which I'll bet is the real intent here. Just like Apple's CSAM detection, "think of the children" is a good-sounding excuse.
Actually, kids outran bad diets for a long time. Kids can eat a lot of garbage if they’re running around in the sun all afternoon and evening, like they did before video games.
This sentence is contradictory. Legality isn’t an opinion but rather the government’s rules on what is or is not allowed in its jurisdiction. If legality is factored in then by definition the government already has a say in what your children do in your home.
Water can lift a boat, or it can fold it in.
When there is a need, there will be a way. It’s all about the will of the people.
You are right that China does not, and never had, a way for the peaceful transfer of power from one regime to the next, but this also means there is no destructive rivalry between regimes. There are no political mutual sabotage at the expense of the nation and it’s people in China.
There is no lobbying in China by corporate conglomerates. Money cannot buy politics in China. Just like the old time, no business is above the Emperor‘s business.
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The chart says it. It went from 13.9% to 18.5% during those years. In 1980, it was 5.5%. Video games didn't really explode in popularity until 2009 or so.
That’s incorrect. I’m sorry but its just not a disputable fact that poor diets in schools and in the home are the leading contributor to obesity. Physical activity is part of it, but its lower on the list. When a parent is obese, many times the children are obese because of genetics and the poor diets that they pass down to their children. Coupled with the fact that an obese parent many times sees their child’s weight as healthy because they too are obese.
Its not like kids all of a sudden were born obese. This has been going on for years and years and while a small part of it is physical activity its not even close to being the main reason. Honestly its thinking that “hey go outside and play” will fix problems with obesity is one of the reasons that most people struggle with it so greatly. Its why people stop going to the gym. They exercise and exercise and exercise but don’t see results because they don’t do anything with their diet.
You are not born in China is kind of unfortunate imo.
This quote is what Chinese government promote and sponsor.
How does this need more back doors? The new rules require real name verification on online game accounts, which in practice would do away with the need for deeper monitoring to figure out who is and isn’t a child. The government probably also already has access to the play time data, given that players for years at this point.
You seem to forget that each successive Chinese regime and dynasty throughout history has been created through successful revolts.
By your definition the Govt has a say in every single thing I do every day in my life because they are allowing me to do it because they’ve deemed it legal. If you feel that owend by the Govt then thats good by me. I don’t think of things as “Oooh I can do this because the Govt says its legal.” If you live that way all good, I just don’t think that way.