Tencent Will Soon Require Chinese Users To Present IDs To Play Its Video Games (theverge.com) 56
China's Tencent will soon require gamers to prove their ages and identities against police records, according to a new official statement yesterday. Under the new system, users will need to register their Chinese national IDs in order to play any games from Tencent. The Verge reports: Ten mobile games will get the new verification system by the end of the year, and all games offered by Tencent, including PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and League of Legends, will get the system by 2019. Tencent has been criticized by state-run People's Daily, which called Arena of Valor "poison," after reports that students were ditching their homework to play the mobile game.
Tencent has also faced direct regulatory pressure this summer, after President Xi Jinping pointed out that too many children were nearsighted and said the government was taking action. Beijing officially ruled to ban new games, cementing an unofficial pause that started back in March, costing Tencent up to $1.5 billion in lost revenue as it was unable to launch games it had been developing. In September, Tencent imposed the new verification system on Arena of Valor and created a feature that blurs the screen if minors look too closely at it. The new system simply enforces rules that Tencent had in place since last year: barring gamers who are 12 and under from playing more than an hour a day and establishing a curfew of 9PM. Those who are 13 to 18 can play up to two hours a day. Still, the system won't prevent minors from borrowing the phones of their parents and other adults.
Tencent has also faced direct regulatory pressure this summer, after President Xi Jinping pointed out that too many children were nearsighted and said the government was taking action. Beijing officially ruled to ban new games, cementing an unofficial pause that started back in March, costing Tencent up to $1.5 billion in lost revenue as it was unable to launch games it had been developing. In September, Tencent imposed the new verification system on Arena of Valor and created a feature that blurs the screen if minors look too closely at it. The new system simply enforces rules that Tencent had in place since last year: barring gamers who are 12 and under from playing more than an hour a day and establishing a curfew of 9PM. Those who are 13 to 18 can play up to two hours a day. Still, the system won't prevent minors from borrowing the phones of their parents and other adults.
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Can you still play video games in chinese muslim internment camps?
They are really Uyghur internment camps, not for muslims in general. The Hui people [wikipedia.org] are muslim, but generally more assimilated than the Uyghurs, and none of them are interned.
Or are games only for non muslim chinese?
Anyone can play them. Only about 10% of the Uyghur population is interned, so the other 90% can play video games if they like. The CCP would prefer that over young men going to the mosque and causing trouble. Video games tend to have a pacifying social effect. It is the opium of the people.
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Good on China for only forcing some Muslims into concentration camps
They are not forced into internment camps because they are muslims, but because they are separatists.
Clearly they have learned from the British and Americans follies
Indeed. Time for some Whataboutism: British internment camps [wikipedia.org], were the first to target an entire population, and had a mortality rate of 50%. American internment camps during the Philippine-American War [wikipedia.org] had a mortality rate of about 20%. There are no reports of excess deaths in the Chinese camps, so they still have some catching up to do.
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Oh, well that clearly makes it all okay.
I never said it was "okay", and I certainly don't think it is. Explaining something and putting in context is not the same as approval.
Does Beijing pay you in yuan or imperialist Yankee petrodollars?
Bitcoin.
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Bacon oath ? I do so swear on this BLT that I am not of the Islamic faith. I believe there is a specific clause that allows Muslims to forswear the faith while in the pursuit of a fatwah or jihad.
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You have to watch China Uncensored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
China is East Germany on steroids.
Heavy-handed but not without merit (Score:3)
Re:Encourage them (Score:1)
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Prevent too many games for minors (Score:1)
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The difference is, people are blaming video games for their actions(or lack thereof). People aren't blaming partying and social life when a toddler starves to death, or dies from dehydration. Rather they state that the person was inept and criminally responsible for their own actions. That's the difference between the two. It's a easy way out, and video games are just the latest round of *insert satanic bogeyman that kills kids/people/offends the ancestors*
Awesome ad, bro (Score:2)
You get fifty cents for making the post, plus it's simultaneously an ad for some incendiary vape equipment. Genius.
And? (Score:2)
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Ebay won't send a SWAT team to disappear you and your family in the middle of the night and then sell your organs to rich Party officials if you refuse their request.
Yet.
Good Solution (Score:2)
Eyesight (Score:2)
while the eyesight link is dubious
Video games directly causing eyesight degradation is dubious (as in you need to use some magic filter glasses to avoid your eyes dying slowly when looking at screens).
There is some corpus of evidence (including studies done in Japan that predate widespread use of smartphones) that somewhat link decreased time spent outside (outdoor activities in sunshine) with increasing need for prescription glasses (not simply explainable by increased reporting due to higher reporting).
And some phenomenon replicated in la
Social Credit (Score:1)
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Your argument is flawed.
Every time Valve CATCHES a cheater, they get paid again.
Every time they miss one, they don't get paid.
It's therefore in their interest to catch as many as they can, as often as they can, and make the barrier to entry high (i.e. you can't just wander into a free game without having made a purchase of tied in a credit card, etc.).
If a cheater persists for any length of time, Valve get NOTHING for all that disruption, except unhappy customers, for all the time it persists, until they re
Credit due (Score:2)