TikTok Limited to 40 Minutes a Day - More Restrictions in China

China has imposed more restrictions on underage internet users. They are allowed to spend 40 minutes a day on the Douyin app, more widely known internationally as TikTok, and only between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.. Users covered by the "youth mode" will also receive selected content. This applies to all people who have given their real data, including age, and are not yet 14 years old. The new rules were reported by qq.com, a Chinese website owned by Tencent.

The developer of Douyin (and TikTok), the Chinese company Bytedance, would not have introduced such restrictions if the government did not require them - limiting the time spent in the app is likely to negatively affect the financial results of its developers. The Chinese Communist Party is thus continuing policy of "protecting" minors from Internet and game addiction. Limiting the time spent with the latter to 3 hours a week is a fresh idea of the authorities, and 40 minutes a day on TikTok is just a continuation of the political trend.

As TheRegister reports, a meeting of Wall Street investors was held last week, during which directors of the People's Bank of China were asked to explain the policies of the Chinese government. The restrictions being put in place are casting a shadow over the predictability of the stock prices of Chinese tech companies. There is no certainty whether new rules won't appear in a week or even tomorrow, further limiting the influence of the Chinese digital entertainment market.

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