2024-06-03
24 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
This is round table.
Nearly 97% of miners in China have access to the Internet and a significant portion of them use that access to play online games.
This has led to many controversies, especially over the issue of miners gaming consumption.
Hello, I'm Lei Ming and this is roundtable today with Neil Hawley and Brandon Yates.
We review the efforts of gaming industry NGO aimed at providing some kind of standards for spending and refunds in association to underage gamers.
So there's this new organization, I wouldn't say the new organization, but there is an NGO, non governmental organization under the name of the Internet Society of China and it has published some new standards on the management requirements for online gaming service consumption for miners.
Well, that sounds like quite a mouthful for something thats still tentative and is still soliciting public opinions.
Super important though, I think.
Yes, and actually this is not a new organization.
It has been there since 2001 and it is the Internet Society of China.
It plays a significant role in the development and management of chinese Internet.
Key roles and functions include industry coordination and advocacy.
Hoping to realize the goal of helping the companies as well as parties within the Internet society to grow healthier and also steadier, more sustainable, and also standards and regulations, including or regarding Internet security, data protection, the ethical use of technology, which I think for today's topic, it falls into this category.
They're also working on education, research, international cooperation, promoting Internet literacy to especially young people or the vulnerable groups, including the elderly.
So yes, they are doing a lot of things to help the Internet society of China to grow and to develop.
And most recently, they've come up with a set of standards governing refunds when parents or children seeks to claim refunds based on what they've spent in games, mostly mobile games and online games.
Yes.
This actually is issued 2024, which is this year, the 28 May.
The Internet Society of China published the standards on the management requirements for online gaming service consumption for miners, for soliciting public opinions like naming said.