China: Online game time for children and adolescents clearly limited
The gaming industry is one of the winners of the Covid 19 pandemic. Over the past one and a half years, the average season in Germany doubled from five to ten hours a week. Children and adolescents are supposed to have spent 75 percent ** more time with games. An intensive use of video games is rarely problematic for itself alone, as further risk factors have to be added to the development of an addiction. Nevertheless, China has decided to restrict the use of video games for children and adolescents per se. Only 3 hours a week In the People's Republic, children and adolescents are allowed to access online games until the age of 18 years old at the age of 18 - on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 20 to 21 o'clock. On public holidays, online sessions are allowed under the above conditions. Offline games apparently remain outward due to the more difficult tracking. As a reason for the fairly narrow restrictions, the authorities give the fight against gambling addiction....