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Roehl Niño Bautista · · 1 min readTencent to curb access for minors on Honor of Kings game after state media article
“China’s Tencent Holdings said on Tuesday it would curb minors’ access to its flagship video game, hours after its shares were battered by a state media article that described online games as ‘spiritual opium,’” reported Reuters.
Details:
- Economic Information Daily, which has ties with state-run news agency Xinhua, had earlier mentioned Tencent’s Honor of Kings game in an article that condemned online gaming addiction.
- The article subsequently vanished from the web but cost Tencent US$60 million in stock value.
Dive deeper:
- Tencent was previously sued by the Children’s Legal Aid And Research Center, which alleged that Honor of Kings exposes underaged gamers to inappropriate content.
- The recent media backlash comes amid heightened state-backed scrutiny of Tencent and other Chinese tech giants. (Read: How China has been clamping down on big tech empires)
Editing by Collin Furtado and Arpit Nayak
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