China is cutting under 18s gaming time to one hour per day on Fridays, weekends, and holidays.

Although I agree with limiting gaming/screen time, I don't think the state should enforce it! The state parenting your kids? What a dystopia lolhttps://t.co/wnMueCd8tT

— Dr Tallha Abdulrazaq (@DrTalAbdulrazaq) August 30, 2021

うどん県は共産圏だった…？ // China cuts children's online gaming to one hour - BBC News https://t.co/gklw2sn6DK

— quoiz (@quoiz) August 30, 2021

China cuts children's online gaming to one hour.

A thread. ?https://t.co/1ERwbpBAPa

— Dr. Rachel Kowert (@DrKowert) August 30, 2021

I'm worried about the impact of online games. But I'm even more worried about this level of state control: "Online gamers under 18 will only be allowed to play for an hour on Fridays, weekends, & holidays, China's video game regulator [sic] has said." https://t.co/65p8Ky0iTD

— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) August 30, 2021

It will be interesting to see if China's government has enough control to make this stick. But if it does, it could cause normally obedient citizens to embrace massive civil disobedience...https://t.co/RMVUzZWa4a

— L (@duediligenceguy) August 30, 2021

Finally, someone is doing something about the lack of single player campaign mode contenthttps://t.co/6kEhSM4AnN

— Cicada Meth Orgy Fungus (@RogueWPA) August 30, 2021

Rip China ?https://t.co/rdFV3gb6Z9

— TheNameIsToby?️ (@TheNameIsToby) August 30, 2021

Just when you thought that China couldn't get any more based, they eliminate degenerate online video games.

This secures the dominance of the off-line, single-player PC gaming experience. Time to download some classics, kids. https://t.co/cZZjvbjXV0

— Tweetophon ⚛️ (@Tweetophon) August 30, 2021

These articles are written with one goal in mind: to make westerners glimpse at headline and think "wow so draconian, so scary".

You can actually do this with laws from 50 other countries but US media only hone in on china ones https://t.co/NLDytar3JE

— ben (@bencsin) August 30, 2021

"All online games should be linked to a state anti-addiction system, and companies can’t provide services to users without real-name registrations" https://t.co/MEyRCEAtlD

— Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) August 30, 2021

Going to be a ton of comparative studies in 10 years with Korea and Japan (who also seem to be doing more than fine) https://t.co/772vSfIYpx

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) August 30, 2021

"Enforcement measures weren’t detailed, but in response to previous government moves Tencent Holdings Ltd... has...automatically boot[ed] off players..and us[ed] real-name registration and facial-recognition technology to limit game play for minors." https://t.co/EwHmUSVi0H

— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) August 30, 2021

I’m fine with parents having a rule like this for their household. I have this exact same rule for my household. We don’t watch movies, television, or play any video games in my house during the week. But I don’t want the government telling me what to do. https://t.co/kTrPH0CN9E

— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyMMA) August 30, 2021

China Limits Videogames to Three Hours a Week for Young People - WSJ // reminder before dunking on this, consider that many US communities passed statutes covering location and operating hours of arcades in the 80s PacMan era. https://t.co/LHQjwC14LC

— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) August 30, 2021

that barely gets you through the tutorial of most modern games https://t.co/9ttGkQC1cL

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) August 30, 2021

I was also quoted in this @WSJTech article about the new regulations impacting the games industry in China.

“This ruling is extremely strict and will essentially wipe out most spending from minors,” said Daniel Ahmad"https://t.co/zGpgIY8oGA

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) August 30, 2021

China stays winning. Wonderful choice https://t.co/lpcojfv8qg

— Crying listening to the song from the end of Drive (@_LarryJ_) August 30, 2021

This is actually bullish news. Cant play video games so they have to spend their youth collecting NFTs and pumping shitcoins https://t.co/BnEdJpPx40

— cobie (@CryptoCobain) August 30, 2021

I was quoted in this @FinancialTimes article on the new regulations that limit the amount of time that minors (under 18s) in China can play games each week.

"Daniel Ahmad, a gaming analyst at Niko Partners, said it was an “extremely restrictive policy”."https://t.co/0x9eDp9NB3

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) August 30, 2021

This is arguably way too harsh. Cos. can only offer online gaming to minors from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, weekends and public holidays https://t.co/iHcoGZjzxr via @technology

— Zheping Huang (@pingroma) August 30, 2021

It’s fine that children play video games, adults on the other hand… https://t.co/mcxzlh5eJ8

— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) August 30, 2021

You wanna raise an entire generation of subversive hackers? This is how you get a generation of subversive hackers https://t.co/Qw337ENytL

— Arlieth@Seattle 9/1 - 9/7 (@Arlieth) August 30, 2021

One way to teach an entire generation of Chinese kids how to get around state controls. https://t.co/rtTYSweB74

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) August 30, 2021

??? China will forbid minors from gaming more than three hours most weeks of the year, imposing their strictest controls yet over entertainment for youths in a blow to the world’s largest mobile gaming arena.https://t.co/ZkdfLlzPLU pic.twitter.com/Z11J9S6K7r

— PiQ (@PriapusIQ) August 30, 2021

Someday e-sports will get added to the Olympics and China’a government will rethink this law. Seriously tho, what happens to China’s pipeline of pro gamers? (Last time they limited minors’ gaming hours, workarounds flourished. But each year it gets tougher.) https://t.co/ewxs4ptXBv

— Paul Mozur 孟建國 (@paulmozur) August 30, 2021

"Gaming platforms can only offer online gaming to minors from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, weekends and public holidays." This is weakness, not strength. https://t.co/S1IYKqR5jq

— Jerry Brito (@jerrybrito) August 30, 2021

Games are the best medium to learn how to tame complex systems. Imagine how little you'd learn if you were only allowed to play three hours a week. https://t.co/AgSxgWsTe4

— banteg (@bantg) August 30, 2021

$tcehy $ntes $atvi $rblx Even with tencent making all kinds of concessions to the higher powers they still got hit with this.

These new restrictions are too much. Kids should be allowed to be kids.https://t.co/GTg48xE8eo

— Andreas (@aadhansen) August 30, 2021

Maybe america shouldn’t have let tipper gore be the face of regulating American youth’s access to the World Consciousness Machine https://t.co/7RqjfgYhKe

— noah kulwin (@nkulw) August 30, 2021

Wild: China is banning everyone in the county under 18 from playing games online, except for three hours each weekend.

I wonder if they will be more successful with an entire country than I've been with my own kids.https://t.co/jeVE7CNicr

— nxthompson (@nxthompson) August 30, 2021

Telling kids they can't play games more than 3 hrs/week is a sure way to make sure they play 30 hrs/week imho... Haven't met a parental control system yet that kids haven't figured out how to gamehttps://t.co/OzdGEB4hwO

— Jon Lai (@Tocelot) August 30, 2021

Is Beijing going to tell the youth of China when exactly they should brush their teeth before going to bed? How about 7.10 to 7.13pm Monday to Friday, maybe 7.45 to 7.48pm on weekends? People need guidance! https://t.co/GmMATnZrmt

— Matthew Brooker (@mbrookerhk) August 30, 2021

China's instant moral panic on technology....
China cuts amount of time minors can spend playing video games https://t.co/6hig6gxqU8

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 30, 2021

This is hilarious in more ways than one. Good luck keeping kids away from videogames. China may have to use firing squads. China wants the benefits of technology, but can't resist micromanagement. The two are not compatible. They'll screw it up. https://t.co/Zx6uJYtkqm

— Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) August 30, 2021

I am sure this rule will be deeply appreciated by China’s youth, who until now had to balance schoolwork and video games. Teenagers the world over naturally look up to authority figures, so I’m sure that they’ll all comply. https://t.co/rbOq8839KZ

— Mike Forsythe 傅才德 (@PekingMike) August 30, 2021

You've got to feel incredibly confident of your absolute power or incredibly insecure about your society (or both) to do something like this https://t.co/3MhDK95nrK

— Mark Little (@marklittlenews) August 30, 2021

Sometimes watching China regulate tech is like peering through a looking glass at US tech regulation.

The US also has recurring moral panics about video games and screen time for kids. The difference is our democratic process helps protect us from overly strict rules like this. https://t.co/4KnsfGNasP

— Tiffany C. Li (@tiffanycli) August 30, 2021

To recap the past year: Beijing cut IPO of Ant Financial, suspended apps of Didi, fined Alibaba. Created new data and algo rules, but exempted gov't. Shut down tutoring sector. Banned foreign textbooks. Declared war on celebrity fandom. Cut kids to 3 hours of games per week. https://t.co/iN2wcPOciT

— Paul Mozur 孟建國 (@paulmozur) August 30, 2021

China has forbidden people under the age of 18 from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as ‘spiritual opium’ https://t.co/iayoC8FqlV pic.twitter.com/ra11XuURHE

— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) August 30, 2021

China’s regulators say minors can play games a total of just three hours most weeks. Netease shares tumbling. https://t.co/zpCndaNiDP via @pingroma pic.twitter.com/TEzEpyBsAS

— Peter Elstrom (@pelstrom) August 30, 2021

This is even more strict than the 30 minute egg timer my mom used to set for Super Mario Brothers. https://t.co/WFej3cacOd

— Liz Young (@LizYoungStrat) August 30, 2021

first they came for the gamers https://t.co/iYukS7ufT4

— Michael Caley (@MC_of_A) August 30, 2021

If you had the power what network, channel or entertainment platform would you limit to just three hours a week? https://t.co/cwnIG789d4

— ??Lionel?? (@LionelMedia) August 30, 2021

Only 3 hours of video games a week as a kid? NGMI in the future digital economy (which playing a certain type of online strategy games preps you for ...resource allocation in AoE is a real skill for ex, perhaps the only one that matters). https://t.co/BsvtmEGg2h

— Adam Singer (@AdamSinger) August 30, 2021

I played like 6-10 hours of video games a day growing up. I turned out ok. 4 hours a week is nothing, that's not even an enjoyable amount of time for a hobby/recreation https://t.co/fJxt5vAvPp

— Dawn 'Yohosie' Hosie (@yohosiefgc) August 30, 2021

ok, so i’m not a wild fan of China’s reflexive control of the smallest details of what ordinary people do, think, say, read etc etc

I think its wrong, and frightening and much more

but …

speaking as a dad,

THIS IS BRILLIANT! https://t.co/AXiJdogMju

— Jason Burke (@burke_jason) August 30, 2021

On God. https://t.co/EHIA0aEnrB

— WesKeltner (@weskeltner) August 30, 2021

With the industry designing to maximize engagement and many successful companies straight-up relying on gambling mechanics to drive their business models, I wonder if we will reflect for even a moment on how we got here.https://t.co/QugODeUr2v

— Brendan Sinclair (@BrendanSinclair) August 30, 2021

BREAKING: China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week

The government described it as a ‘spiritual opium’ https://t.co/OTFoOxduXp

— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) August 30, 2021

China has forbidden people under the age of 18 from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as ‘spiritual opium’ https://t.co/iayoC8FqlV pic.twitter.com/ra11XuURHE

— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) August 30, 2021

China restricts video gaming for minors to only Fridays and weekends, an hour a day. So now the whole nation will experience my childhood https://t.co/5sFXYxjp2O

— David Lin (@davidlin_TV) August 30, 2021

中国政府、子供のゲームプレイ時間を「1日1時間」（金土日）に規制か……一週間に3時間しかプレイできず、香川県より短いことに https://t.co/kAPAN3wMvA

— ?すまほん!!?5G (@sm_hn) August 30, 2021

Three hours a week: Play time's over for China's young video gamers https://t.co/MdMckbveNR

— Haralabos Voulgaris (@haralabob) August 30, 2021

"China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than 3 hours a week [...] to pull the plug on a growing addiction [...] described as "spiritual opium".

Xi Jinping's authoritarianism is tightening at an unprecedented rate.https://t.co/GvoxQrY6xZ

— Tim Soret (@timsoret) August 30, 2021

The Thought Police hereby decrees minors may only play video games for up to one hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays. Thursdays were too problematic. https://t.co/h0WrRR3jza

— Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg) August 30, 2021

China is now limiting online gaming for minors to 3 hours a week. What are your thoughts? Keep in mind gaming addiction is rampant in many countries.

"Protecting the physical and mental health of minors is related to the people's vital interests” https://t.co/vBUDybHbBw

— ?σєуաяєƈκ'ˢ Ɗуѕтσριαη Ƒυтυяє ? (@joeywreck) August 30, 2021

Meanwhile our little grown-up brats are in an uproar about vaccines and masks….

“China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week…” https://t.co/4d5WmsH1Hl

— kim ?? (@4_the_babies) August 30, 2021

Does this mean that China's potential user growth declines, and warrants less addressable opportunity for their 3 world finals slots? #NAHOPEhttps://t.co/MdO2VPn6xL

— DavidSB (@ixdavidsb) August 30, 2021

more on the chinese video game crackdown https://t.co/wV1EG31oWN

— alex (@alex) August 30, 2021