At the end of August, China\u2019s video game regulator, the National Press and Publication Administration, imposed a video game ban on minors. According to Reuters minors can only play from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, weekends and public holidays. A newspaper run by <\/em>Xinhua News Agency<\/em>, a government-controlled media outlet, equated video game addiction to \u201cspiritual opium\u201d and \u201celectronic drugs.\u201d These rules are all in effort to curve video game addiction in the country\u2019s youth. <\/em>An unnamed NPPA spokesman said, \u201cProtecting the physical and mental health of minors is related to the people’s vital interests, and relates to the cultivation of the younger generation in the era of national rejuvenation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n There have been varying opinions, Chinese parents generally favoring it, told the New York Times<\/em>, \u201cI think it\u2019s the right policy.\u201d However, there were general complaints from youth in both China and the United States. A user on the Chinese social media site Weibo said, \u201cThis policy presumes that gaming is bad.\u201d This is a similar reaction as many saw the law as too stringent. Meagan Pan, senior at Allen D. Nease High School, said, \u201cI would be mad if our government instituted a law like that.\u201d She added that she would be \u201cdisappointed\u201d if the United States government intervened in the private lives of its citizens. Basil Koutoufaris, junior at Ponte Vedra High School, had a similar opinion that if governments start implementing video game restrictions that it \u201ccould easily bleed into other restrictions, which makes me worried about the future and where the line will be drawn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not to mention, the main concern voiced by China\u2019s youth is about esports, a video game competition. Newzoo, a market research group, reports that China has the world\u2019s largest video game market. A second Weibo user said \u201cChina doesn\u2019t have the future for e-sports then… Kids in other countries will win the world\u2019s campion at 17 years old, while we start to play the game at 18.\u201d According to CNN, the NPPA is encouraging tech giants to require potential users to register with their real names and ages, so therefore both the company and government can check up on them. Eva Chong, sophomore at Trinity Preparatory School, argued that, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t harm anyone to play video games or to lie about your age. I think because the law is pretty extreme, so the Chinese government can\u2019t expect everyone to follow it strictly without finding loopholes.\u201d For now, the NPPA doesn\u2019t show any sign of changing their policy, despite the public\u2019s objections. This ban continues to add onto China\u2019s strategy aimed at tech giants and to support growth of the country\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the end of August, China\u2019s video game regulator, the National Press and Publication Administration, imposed a video game ban on minors. According to Reuters minors can only play from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, weekends and public…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[88,91],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wickliffe-video-game-ban.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}