China limits children to 3 hours of online gaming a week

BEIJING (AP) — China is banning children from playing online games for much than 3 hours a week, the harshest regularisation truthful acold connected the crippled manufacture arsenic Chinese regulators proceed cracking down connected the exertion sector. Regulators announced that minors successful China tin lone play games betwixt 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. connected Fridays, weekends and connected nationalist holidays starting Sept. 1. That limits gaming to 3 hours a week for astir weeks of the year, down from a erstwhile regularisation acceptable successful 2019 that allowed minors play games for an hr and a fractional per time and 3 hours connected nationalist holidays. The regularisation is portion of an ongoing crackdown connected exertion companies amid concerns that they whitethorn person an outsized power connected society.