A New Law on Gaming for Minors.

Minors will be prohibited from playing games during weekdays, and they can only play one hour per day on weekends or national holidays. This is not the first restriction online in China. Chinese should use their real name on online registration so that the government knows who plays when. This law will be carried out by gaming companies. And they said minors are only a small portion of the user bases and revenues. Some outside China, supportive voices are applauding this. But this nanny state is controversial. Take South Korea for example. Lately, the South Korean government is abolishing the gaming curfew on minors because it’s inefficient. Some critics say this law presumes that gaming is bad. Chinese Officials say it’s not enough, as there are a lot of complaints that gaming addiction affects learning, minors’ mental health, and even social problems. We don't know whether it’s for minors’ ideological welfare or reinserting themselves into private life.

*Vocabularies; presume, welfare, revenue, applaud, nanny state, reinsert, abolish, ideological, supreme

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