Tick, tick, tick … TikTok China just limited kids to 40 minutes' use each day

2021-09-20 01:14

Douyin, the Chinese app known as TikTok outside the Middle Kingdom, has imposed limits on usage time for kids.

In a weekend post to Tencent-operated portal qq.com, Douyin's owner ByteDance revealed that it has moved all users who have authenticated with their real names, and are under 14 years of age, into "Youth mode".

Such users are now restricted to using the app for forty minutes a day, and not at all between 10pm and 6am.

While restricting the amount of time that kids can spend in Douyin is required by Chinese law, and demanded by current mores in the Middle Kingdom, ByteDance is not out of the woods.

ByteDance's announcement of the time restrictions therefore suggests parents complete their kids' registration, or manually enable Youth Mode.

Restricting user time will therefore hit ByteDance's bottom line.

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