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China, apparently, does not know any 18 year olds. I'm sure they'll all voluntarily comply, no problem. /s

• detaro 5y ago
  Rules for how online gaming companies can offer their service is kind of the opposite of expecting users to comply voluntarily with restrictions on online gaming?
  • m0zg 5y ago
    There are also self-hosted, and offline games. Shit, my 17 yo plays until 4 in the morning somehow even though his internet turns off at 10pm and his phone has no data plan.
    • detaro 5y ago
      So your point is that people won't follow regulation targeting online games, by playing not-online games?
      • m0zg 5y ago
        My point is that if "playing games" for days on end is a concern, this does next to nothing to fix that. In fact, I'm not even sure there is a fix per se. As a parent, I think this is a big problem. Literally an entire generation of young men and women are wasting entire days on their YouTube/TikTok/computer games addiction (often all three) and neither learning nor doing anything worthwhile with their lives. That bill will come due in the form of poverty, crime, substance abuse, and death 10-20 years from now, when these folks see that they can't get paid for watching youtube all day. At least not reliably. Kudos to the Chinese for seeing a little bit ahead of everyone else, even if their "solution" is nothing of the sort.