{"id":16892,"date":"2021-08-03T04:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T04:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16892"},"modified":"2021-08-03T04:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T04:42:20","slug":"chinese-newspaper-labels-gaming-spiritual-opium-and-calls-out-tencent-fanning-fears-of-a-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16892","title":{"rendered":"Chinese newspaper labels gaming \u2018spiritual opium\u2019 and calls out Tencent, fanning fears of a crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostA newspaper affiliated with China\u2019s official news agency, Xinhua, has published a report calling online gaming \u201cspiritual opium\u201d that is harming the country\u2019s teenagers and singled out Tencent Holdings, China\u2019s largest video game operator, as a source of the problem.The piece, published on Tuesday in the investigation section of the Economic Information Daily, marks a strong attack on the country\u2019s gaming industry and its leading player. Coming amid Beijing\u2019s ongoing discipline of China\u2019s Big\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3143609\/chinese-newspaper-labels-gaming-spiritual-opium-and-calls-out-tencent-fanning?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostA newspaper affiliated with China\u2019s official news agency, Xinhua, has published a report calling online gaming \u201cspiritual opium\u201d that is harming the country\u2019s teenagers&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}