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I feel that in the communist nature of China, the freedom of Chinese citizens would gradually ddecrease over time. This new rule is extremely unfair to not only kids, but also to the gaming companies, who depend on gaming for their income. Therefore, I feel what China has done is very communist, and we should do that in SIngapore.

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I have commented in Luke's padlet 49 seconds ago, and right now, it is 20210930, 12:38. Addiction is an issue, and the government should take smaller steps instead of slapping 40 minutes a day. What should be done? 5 hours, 4:30, 4 hours, 3:30, and so on, until this goes down to 40 minutes.
Now THAT is good.

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I feel that the actions China is taking goes against the rights of children living there. Although gaming excessively is a bad thing, moderate amounts of gaming could actually help you to relieve stress, especially in China's growing and competitive society. The education system there is, I would say, a little over competitive as it pits students against one another instead of having students to focus on their weaknesses. They would feel the stress when it comes to exams and I feel that gaming would help them relieve a bit of this stress.

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I think that these restrictions are good during normal working days for children, but not during the holidays. The holidays is a time for us to relax and chill at our own pace, and not be restricted. However, nothing is unstoppable. The kids in china will find a way to hack pass these restrictions, and one day achieve victory.

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This article was very surprising to me as I did not know that China had to restrict the usage of such apps in order to control the youths of its population. I feel it is rather restricting as China, especially its schools can have a competitive and stressful environment and children should be allowed to destres by scrolling through social media and gaming at their will, but of course not excessively. Three hours a week of gaming was very surprising and i feel bad for those who have to abide by these limits. Maybe instead of restrictions, they could observe and stop the over-usage of applications?

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which means that China might actually not be looking at the long term consequences of limiting such usages of these stuff.

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There is actually a reason behind this I think...
China is clamping down on stuff like newspapers, websites, devices and games. These might be regarded as not very useful to the leaders of China, and the sectors they are attempting to clamp down are the ones that are making 'too much of a profit'. Hence China could see clamping down on these stuff as 'rebalancing money distribution' and 'fixing the economy'.

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i feel that china is evil

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I feel that China is going a little too far with these restrictions.

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Some takeaways I had is that addiction is a topic that Chinese government cares about. However, I feel that the restrictions are quite useless. If the children were addicted, they would find ways to break out of the system anyway. Plus, only a small amount of the population is addicted. You can't really speak for everyone when you say that doing this is to "combat addiction". Additionally, students are already facing very stressful environments in school. Shouldn't they be allowed to destress? So why is China limiting this? I really feel that it is very unfair for the children that have to abide by these limits.

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I wonder how the Chinese children are going to react to this. Are they going to work together to fight against the government, or are they just going to live with this? Also, are the parents going to speak up, or do they support this decision?

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I feel that this youth mode is here to guide students in China to stop focusing on their devices and instead focus more on their studies. Combined with the gaming restrictions, I can see how China really wants to improve the youth.

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https://www.engadget.com/tik-tok-china-limits-kids-under-14-to-40-minutes-each-day-091559878.html

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Following a crackdown on gaming by Chinese authorities, ByteDance is introducing new youth controls for Douyin, its TikTok-equivalent app in China, has reported. Any users confirmed to be under 14 will enter a new "youth mode" limited to 40 minutes of usage per day. At the same time, it unveiled a new app called Xiao Qu Xing ("Little Fun Star"), a TikTok-style short video app with limited subject materials, a 40 minute time limit and the ability to like, but not upload or share videos.

On top of the time restriction, kids in China won't be able to access Douyin between 10PM and 6AM. The new controls only apply to users who supplied their real names and ages, so to that end, Douyin has asked parents to register their kids' real information. ByteDance also added more content to Douyin with educational subjects like science, art history, history and more. The new app, Xiao Qu Xing, appears to offer exclusively educational content.

Gaming limits introduced earlier this month are even more restrictive, with under-14s limited to just three hours per week between 8-9PM on Friday, weekends and public holidays. Previously, kids could game for 90 minutes a day and three hours on holidays. The rule change was put in place to combat gaming addiction, regulators said.

The TikTok restrictions won't affect as many kids, however. According to an article in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), just 0.34 percent of Douyin users are under 12, with 4.18 percent from 13-19 years old. Those figures are far from certain, though, as Douyin doesn't publish demographic data.

It also acknowledged that it might be easy to bypass the new rules. "As the first short video platform to launch minor protection measures, we deeply understand that there will be imperfections," the company said in a statement. To that end, it has launched a bug-finding campaign seeking "loopholes" in the login process.

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TikTok owner ByteDance limits younger users to 40 minutes a day in China | Engadget

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Following a crackdown on gaming by Chinese authorities, ByteDance is introducing new youth controls for Douyin, its TikTok-equivalent app in China, has reported. Any users confirmed to be under 14 will enter a new "youth mode" limited to 40 minutes of usage per day.