Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming

1MC writes "The Chinese govt is requiring game houses to modify MMOG's to restrict under 18 users to 3 hours "productive" gameplay per day. This "anti-addiction" software must be in place within 4 months, with games not compliant by July 15 liable to be shut down in China. Net9, Shanda and NetEase will be moving to comply with the government regulations. Users will have to register with their real names and Chinese identity card numbers to be allowed access to the games."

I disagree

[hahafaha]

from the thank-god-i'm-over-18 dept.

I'd rather say, thank-god-i'm-not-in-china!

thank-god-i'm-over-18 dept?

[tylersoze]

Uhh how about the thank-god-i-don't-f**king-live-in-china-for-any-re ason dept?

Re:If China really wants to help kids...

[goldspider]

Newsflash: China's government isn't particularly concerned about human rights.

Pictures at eleven.

Chinese Party Youth League moves meeting

[davidwr]

The 24x7 Chinese Communist Party Youth League meetings in popular role-playing games have been rescheduled to 1700-2000 hours, effective August 1.

Unchanged is the mandatory attendance policy.

Re:If China really wants to help kids...

[AKAImBatman]

Pictures at eleven.

What are you talking about? All I see are happy pictures of happy people hanging around China's grand Tiananmen Square [google.cn]. It sounds like you've been listening to too many American conspiracies! Would you like to visit our special hotel for American conspirists?

Re:Also...

[CogDissident]

Arguably, so are most of our elected officials.

Re:Repressive governments...

[jswigart]

Maybe something to do with months to years of responsible training of proper use of combat equipment, in a job that requires a reasonable amount of responsibility and respect for others. Versus, a high school or college kid that has neither responsibility, nor respect for others getting drunk at a party and killing themselves or an innocent on the way home, which happens far more often than an irresponsible military member doing the same. It's not hard to remain ignorant on the differences between the two when you don't bother thinking about it for 5 seconds. There's much more at play than simply the age of the participants.