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China to limit teenagers’ smartphone use to two hours a day
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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This sounds difficult to actually implement.
For example, I play a mobile game where if you have an iOS account that is set as an “under 13” account anywhere in the settings, the in-game chat is permanently turned off for you. But, there’s nothing that stops an actual 10-year-old from having an account that doesn’t have the age settings, thusly allowing them to access whatever gets said in the game chat.
The proposals for app devs described in the article also don’t make a lot of sense and sound like huge hurdles to overcome.
China actually already has a system in place that kinda works for their existing video game restrictions - your accounts are connected to your social ID, or to a social media which in turn is connected to your social ID. Alternatively I wouldn't be surprised if like what they do is connect your SIM card to your national number (which is possible - some countries do it for 2FA for government stuff and banking) which is what they use to control internet usage
...of course it does little against the tried and true method of "using your mum's phone/ID for games"