CHINESE KIDS LIMITED TO THREE HOURS OF GAMING PER WEEK

China is banning children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, the harshest restriction so far as Chinese regulators continue cracking down on the technology sector. Minors in China can only play games between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, weekends and on public holidays starting Sept. 1. That limits gaming to three hours a week for most weeks of the year, down from a previous restriction set in 2019 that allowed minors to play games for an hour and a half per day and three hours on public holidays.
* Oh boy! More time for math homework!
* Oh boy! More time in the factory building video game consoles to ship overseas!
* It takes me three hours to figure out a video game menu.
* You know how the government can tell how long a Chinese kid is playing online games? They have Chinese checkers.
* When I was a kid, my mom would say “Eat your vegetables, the children in China are starving.” Now I can threaten my kids with, “Eat your vegetables. The children in China only get three hours of video games a week.”
* And both of those threats make about the same amount of sense.