Gaming screen time decreased by Tencent to avoid being included in China’s “crackdown”
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Tencent announced new limits on the amount of time children can spend playing the company's online games, raising concerns among investors that China's historic crackdown on the private sector could be extended to the gaming industry. Those anxieties were heightened when the Economic Information Daily released a lengthy analysis that used the terms "opium" and "electronic drug" to characterise the negative impacts of gaming on youngsters.