{"id":16920,"date":"2021-08-03T06:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T06:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16920"},"modified":"2021-08-03T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T06:40:31","slug":"chinese-newspaper-deletes-report-that-called-video-gaming-spiritual-opium-said-to-misportray-beijings-official-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16920","title":{"rendered":"Chinese newspaper deletes report that called video gaming \u2018spiritual opium\u2019, said to misportray Beijing\u2019s official stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostA report against video gaming by a newspaper managed by the Xinhua News Agency was deleted from the publication\u2019s website and on its WeChat account at noon on Tuesday, a move that one regulatory source said was made because its attack against the industry does not represent Beijing\u2019s official stance.The piece, published in the investigation section of the Economic Information Daily, described video gaming as a \u201cspiritual opium\u201d that is harming the country\u2019s teenagers and singled out Tencent\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3143625\/chinese-newspaper-deletes-report-called-video-gaming-spiritual-opium?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostA report against video gaming by a newspaper managed by the Xinhua News Agency was deleted from the publication\u2019s website and on its WeChat&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16921,"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\/16920"}],"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=16920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}