28 Aug 2023

Does China have the answer to screen time for children?

From Afternoons, 1:13 pm on 28 August 2023

Two years ago, China instituted a strict three-hour-per-week limit for children playing video games.

In the time since, it's also demanded that TikTok-like social media platforms offer a heavily filtered content pool for users under 18, while also limiting their screen time and spending in the apps.

Now they are going bigger. They're about to introduce a policy that limits children up to 60 minutes of internet screentime per day after success of their earlier measures.

 Michelle Dickinson, AKA Nanogirl asks if we should be looking to China when it comes to kids on screens.

People were most concerned with children putting information about themselves online.

People were most concerned with children putting information about themselves online. Photo: 123RF

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