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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: China Regulator Proposes Curbs for Online Gaming

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Activision Blizzard and a California regulator file paperwork to settle gender-discrimination claims. And people inside Meta warned of risks for encrypting Facebook direct messages, WSJ reports. Alex Ossola hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Friday, December 22nd.

0:35.0

I'm Alex Osila for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.0

China's video game regulator is looking for ways to reduce how much time and money people spend on video games.

0:44.7

Today it suggested measures including eliminating incentives that can get people hooked on

0:48.6

games like rewards for playing daily and limiting how much people can spend within a game.

0:53.7

The proposals put the onus on China's biggest game makers.

0:56.7

Shares in Tech Giant 10 cent fell 12% while Chinese rival netise dropped 25%.

1:03.6

Activition Blizzard and the California Civil Rights Department have filed a legal settlement

1:08.0

confirming an agreement that was announced last week.

1:10.8

The video game company has agreed to pay nearly $55 million to resolve gender

1:15.1

discrimination charges, while the state has withdrawn its claims of sexual harassment at the company.

1:20.6

If the settlement is approved by a judge, it would end a legal battle that helped lead to Activision's sale to Microsoft.

1:27.0

And we exclusively report that when Meta began rolling out encryption for Facebook direct messages this month, it was advancing a

1:34.4

project that members of its safety staff have long warned would end in, quote, disaster.

1:39.3

The encryption feature is part of Meta's push to enhance user privacy, but some employees have warned internally

1:45.4

that it would limit the ability to detect and report child sexual abuse on the company's

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