Tencent cracks down on screen time after Chinese state media says gaming is ‘spiritual opium’

Tencent cracks down on screen time after Chinese state media says gaming is ‘spiritual opium’

Those fears were stoked Tuesday after Economic Information Daily — a business newspaper owned by Xinhua News Agency, which is China’s official news outlet — published a lengthy analysis that used terms such as “opium” and “electronic drug” to describe the harmful effects of gaming on children. “It turns out ‘spiritual opium’ has grown into … Read more