China’s biggest gaming company, Tencent, says it will review whether it adequately limits children’s access to live streaming and other features.
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2020, file photo, people look at a display from Chinese technology firm Tencent at the China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing. China’s biggest gaming company, Tencent, said it would review whether it adequately limits children’s access to live streaming and other features after the government expanded a regulatory crackdown on tech industries by accusing the company in a lawsuit of failing to do enough to protect young users.
The online gaming industry was shaken this week when an official newspaper criticized their offerings as “spiritual opium” and cited examples of students playing Tencent’s wildly popular Honor of Kings game for hours. Tencent is best known abroad as the operator of the popular WeChat messaging system. It is one of the world’s 10 most valuable tech companies, with aIn a statement on its social media account, the WeChat team promised to conduct “self-examination of the functions of WeChat Youth Mode” and “sincerely respond to the civil public interest litigation.”
Tencent and other Chinese tech giants including e-commerce platform Alibaba Group have been fined and reprimanded in a series of anti-monopoly, data protection and other enforcement campaigns launched since last year.
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