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Very weird feeling I have here, in China. For once, I feel it's the americans following us. What's next, limiting online video game time ??
by xwolfi 4y ago
Very weird feeling I have here, in China. For once, I feel it's the americans following us. What's next, limiting online video game time ??
- barbazoo 4y agoFor me this is a public health measure. If video games were shown to have a similarly destructive effect on our youth I'd consider regulating that too.
- ngokevin 4y agoLimiting the platforms of celebrities and influencers?
- specialist 4y agoOh no, that'd be limiting Freedom Speeches™. But the US Constitution doesn't guarantee anyone will be listening.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoWe are talking about banning china owned TikTok in the USA, which would be like banning US owned Facebook in china. So ya, maybe you have a point?
- kube-system 4y agoI feel like it is a universally constant thing for some subset of people to want their government to “force those other people to do what I think they should be doing”. The only the US does relatively well is to provide mechanisms to reverse course when these things happen. Which is also why a lot of changes end up in gridlock. Which I suspect will happen soon in this case.
- syklep 4y agoI'd guess it's more of a "make sure our children grow up into healthy working adults, instead of more minimum wage tech addicts".
- gtop3 4y agoWhen I was a teenager my screen time was the maximum feasible. Now my average screentime is between 12 and 14 hours a day. I'm yet another gainfully employed software engineer. I don't think there is any empirical evidence correlating tech addiction to income, but if there was I wouldn't be surprised if the relationship was positive.
- kube-system 4y agoWho is going to make them grow up a particular way?
- throwayyy479087 4y agoThat would also be good. I know people who have shit their pants during RuneScape sessions. They can’t use it responsibly.