India at the moment would not plan to place restrictions on how a lot time people, together with children, spend enjoying video games on-line, taking a distinct method from the neighboring nation China that rocked the native gaming market after implementing strict new measures final 12 months. From a report: Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India’s minister of state for electronics and knowledge know-how, instructed the decrease home of the nation’s parliament in a written response that no such proposal is at the moment below the consideration of the Indian authorities. New Delhi is conscious of the attainable dangers and challenges surrounding on-line video games, together with habit, violence and monetary loss, Chandrasekhar mentioned, however asserted that nation’s IT guidelines already impose obligation on intermediaries to carry out due diligence reminiscent of guaranteeing they do not “host, show, publish, transmit or share any data that’s dangerous to little one.”
