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China Drafts New Rules to Curb Internet Addiction Among Children and Teens (www.scmp.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary of proposed limits by Twitter user @Orikron

🇨🇳 China is set to limit the amount of time children spend on the internet:

16 to 18 - 2 hours

8 to 16 - 1 hour

Under 8 - 40 minutes

No internet access on children’s devices from 10pm-6am

Parents will be allowed to opt out of the time limits for their youngsters.

Edit: additional info from @[email protected]:

Parents can change default time limits

Reminder to rest every 30 minutes

Apps not subject to time limits include:

Emergency-related (safety, emergency calling etc.)

Approved educational apps

Tools suitable for minors (image processing, calculator, measurement etc.)

User-defined by parents

Full draft available in Chinese: http://www.cac.gov.cn/2023-08/02/c_1692541991073784.htm

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am childfree but a lot of my close friends have kids now, and this is a huge topic of conversation for all of them. Working out how much time they spend on devices, what they do on the devices, etc. They don't want to segregate their kids from learning important technologies at a young age, but neither do they want their kids to be online 24/7. I honestly don't envy the situation.

I think these restrictions are honestly a pretty good baseline guideline.