Today, Tencent Games released the "2024 Winter Vacation and Spring Festival Holiday Minor Game Restriction Notice", and the topic #Tencent Games announced the winter vacation play restriction calendar# quickly appeared on the hot search, causing heated discussions.
According to the calendar released by Tencent Games, underage players before and after the 2024 winter and Spring Festival holidays can only log in to the game between 20-21 o'clock every day from January 26 to 28, February 2 to 3, February 9 to 17, and February 23 to 24, for a total of 16 hours. The news has been discussed and praised by netizens.
At the same time, netizens are also concerned that the mainland's first comprehensive legislation for the protection of minors online, the "Regulations on the Protection of Minors Online", has been implemented on January 1, 2024. Under the Ordinance, network service providers will have more responsibilities and obligations.
Today, the reporter invited the judge of the Juvenile Family Trial Division of the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court and the lawyer Wang Jinfu, senior partner and executive director of Sichuan Rongcheng Law Firm, to sort out and interpret the "Regulations on the Protection of Minors on the Internet".
The judge said so
@所有人, minors must not be insulted, defamed, or otherwise bullied through the internet;
Minors must not be insulted, defamed, threatened, or maliciously damaged by cyberbullying through text, pictures, audio, video, or other forms of cyberbullying through the internet.
@监护人, they shall strengthen the establishment of family education and family style, increase their own network literacy, and regulate their own use of the Internet;
Guardians of minors shall strengthen the establishment of family education and family style, increase their own online literacy, regulate their own use of the internet, and strengthen education, demonstration, guidance, and oversight of minors' use of the internet.
@新闻媒体, conduct public opinion oversight of conduct that infringes on the lawful rights and interests of minors;
News media shall use methods such as news reports, special columns (bibliographies), and public interest advertisements to carry out publicity on laws, regulations, policy measures, typical cases, and relevant knowledge on the protection of minors online, conduct public opinion oversight of conduct that violates the lawful rights and interests of minors, and guide the entire society to participate in the protection of minors online.
@网络服务提供者, minors must not be induced to participate in online activities such as fundraising, and minors must not be reasonably limited in the amount of single consumption or the amount of cumulative consumption in a single day;
@网络直播服务者, mechanisms for dynamic verification of the real identity information of online livestream publishers shall be established.
@网络产品和服务提供者, information that might impact minors' physical and psychological health must not be presented in conspicuous locations such as the home page, pop-up windows, and hot searches.
The lawyer said so
In order to prevent minors from becoming addicted to the Internet, in recent years, various online platforms have gradually implemented anti-addiction measures such as restrictions on the time minors can use the Internet and restrictions on consumption, but there are still other regulatory loopholes. For example, minors can log in again by changing their game accounts and calculate the game time from zero, and there are also new phenomena such as minors indulging in star-chasing rankings and recharging games with large amounts of money to rebate.
Lawyer Wang Jinfu said that the "Regulations" start from the actual situation, stipulate the subject of obligations and responsibilities for the prevention and control of minors' Internet addiction in the mainland, and build a multi-party cooperation and linkage system for the prevention and control of minors' Internet addiction among the government, schools, families and enterprises.
In response to the issue of minors being addicted to social media, online livestreams, games, and short video platforms, it is provided that network service providers are to provide services in accordance with relevant state provisions and standards in areas such as the time period, duration, functions, and content, and that functions such as time management, authority management, and consumption management are to be provided for guardians' performance of guardianship duties in a conspicuous and convenient manner. In response to the problem of irrational online consumption by minors, it is clearly stated that network service providers shall reasonably limit the amount of single consumption and the cumulative amount of consumption in a single day by minors of different ages.
In addition, it is worth noting that in real life, some online rehabilitation institutions promise to their guardians to "cure" minors' Internet addiction by restricting minors' personal freedom, corporal punishment, beating and scolding, fasting, and other violent punishments. These methods of redress go beyond the scope of legality under the law. Article 49 of the Regulations stipulates that it is strictly forbidden for any organization or individual to interfere with minors' addiction to the Internet and infringe upon their legitimate rights and interests by abuse, coercion or other methods that infringe on minors' physical and mental health.
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News Reporter Chen Di According to the Network Editor-in-charge He Qitie Editor Wang Qi