The Chinese Radio and Television Administration has published new rules for broadcasting on the Internet: children under 16 are now prohibited from sending donations to streamers and watching live broadcasts after 22:00.

Sending money, more specifically, virtual gifts that can then be exchanged for money, to streamers is a common practice. And now, platforms that organize broadcasting on the Web are ordered to prohibit users under the age of 16 from purchasing and sending such gifts.

The regulator justified the next tightening of the regulatory framework by the fact that live broadcasts, to the authors of which money is sent, damage the mental and physical health of underage viewers. This is not the first time Beijing has imposed restrictions on streaming: in July last year, children under 16 years of age were banned from appearing in any live video broadcasts, and minors were also banned from being persuaded to receive any material income using the Internet.

This is stated in the results of a joint study of the Rabota.ru and SberUslugi services, conducted in April among 4,120 residents of all Russian regions.

“44% of respondents in Russia thought about switching to freelancing. 19% of respondents indicated that they definitely would not want to work in this format. Another 37% of study participants noted that they had not thought about it yet,” the survey results say.

Respondents could point to several benefits of freelancing. Among them, the leader was the possibility of remote work - this item was chosen by 79% of respondents. 78% singled out the opportunity to independently determine the work schedule. Almost half (46%) of the study participants indicated that freelancing can work on several projects at once, and 44% of respondents this format allows you to earn more. For 36% of respondents, freelancing makes it possible to move to another city or country, and 9% of respondents are sure that it is easier to work in this format. In the "Other" option, 2% of respondents most often indicated that freelancing allows them to spend more time on hobbies and family.

Speaking about the specialties that Russians are considering for freelancing, a quarter of respondents (26%) indicated that they could do repairs in private. Another 18% of respondents are ready to provide educational services, and 17% preferred the sphere of beauty and health. 16% of the study participants said that they can provide services in the field of IT, 14% - in design or marketing, 10% - in the field of foreign languages ​​(translations and text preparation). Another 5% of respondents indicated the possibility of working privately as specialists in the field of sports. In the "Other" option, 28% of respondents often mentioned the areas of jurisprudence, accounting, construction and security.

China has ordered government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-brand personal computers with domestic counterparts within two years, in one of Beijing's most aggressive efforts to date to phase out key foreign technologies.

After the May holiday, employees were encouraged to trade in foreign PCs for local alternatives running on a domestically developed operating system, according to people familiar with the plan. The central government-sanctioned initiative is likely to eventually replace at least 50 million PCs at the central government level alone.

The decision is the development of China's decade-long campaign to replace imported technology with local alternatives, which spans everything from semiconductor products to networking equipment and phones. The decision is expected to directly impact sales of HP and Dell Technologies, the country's largest PC brands after Lenovo Group.

These efforts reflect Beijing's growing concern for information security, as well as confidence in domestic equipment. The world's largest laptop and server manufacturers today include Lenovo, Huawei Technologies and Inspur, while local developers such as Kingsoft and Standard Software have made headway in the office software category.

The campaign will be rolled out to regional government agencies within two years, the sources said.

Annual inflation in Turkey in April was almost 70%, which was a record for the last 20 years

Turkey's annual inflation rate has risen for the 11th month in a row. At the same time, in January, annual inflation was about 49%, in March - 61%, in April last year - 17%. Turkish journalists link the price hike with the Ukrainian crisis and a sharp rise in energy prices.

During the year, the most expensive ones rose: transport (+105%), food (+89%), household goods (+78%), housing and communal services (+61%). Health services (+36%), education (+28%), clothing (+26%) also hit the wallets of Turks.

It should be noted that the Turkish government has come up with a very strange way to deal with inflation and economic shocks. When the whole world (including Russia) raises the key rate, Erdogan decided to ... lower it. And those who disagree with such plans, the head of the Ministry of Finance, the national statistical office and three heads of the Central Bank were successively fired. As we can see, the results were not long in coming.