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China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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Make babies! It's illegal to be lonely!
And wasn't China very recently concerned about their birthrate being too high? One Child Policy?
Now they're already concerned about their birth rate being too low?
The one-child policy was abolished in 2015, but birth rates have continued to decline after that. They currently have one of the world's lowest fertility rates.
You probably joking, but that actually a thing in China and was a thing in USSR
6% of income? Still much cheaper than a kid!
It says that it was proposed... We propose a lot of bills that never pass here in the US. I'm not sure how China's laws are setup but Wikipedia doesn't say that it was ever implemented.
Is that your take on the matter? How is wanting yo promote real human relationships between teenagers a bad thing?
This is like trying to solve mental illness by making sickness illegal.
I'd say that's more like trying to solve mental illness by making it illegal to exploit and profit from it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
That is suspiciously close to "Nowhere" spelled backward.
So I guess you're pretty fine with the pedo/misogynist/nazi/bullying shit happening on Discord servers.
What do Discord servers have to do with anything??
What does the fact that leaving kids unsupervised can lead to bad shit have to do with the issue at hand?
"You hate hotdogs? YOU MUST LOVE BURGERS THEN"
What are you even trying to say?
I'm pretty sure AI partners are not the primary reason people don't have human partners. The issues are systematic and root very deeply. While I do think AI partners are a very toxic and dangerous way out of this, I highly doubt they were the reason people were single in the first place.
I'm pretty sure alcohol is not the primary reason people don't drive responsibly. The issues are systematic and root very deeply. While I do think driving while drunk is a very toxic and dangerous way out of this, I highly doubt they were the reason people were ebrious in the first place.
You're joking, but people drive under influence not because alcohol exists, but because they have issues with self-control and responsibility.
So you do prove a point while trying to oppose it, imo
No, my point is you don't stop repressing drunk drivers because there are more rooted issues that lead them to drink.