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Default china censors online games - 06-04-2004, 04:25 PM

http://www.theregister.com/2004/06/01/china_bans_games/

[quote:c0fe6]Chinese government censors online games

By John Oates
Published Tuesday 1st June 2004 13:55 GMT

The Chinese government is setting up a special committee to review and if necessary censor online games. Games which break the constitution, threaten national unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity will be banned. Anything which threatens "state security, damaging the nation's glory, disturbing social order and infringing on other's legitimate rights" will also be banned.

All new games will have to go before the committee to get approval before they go on sale. All games already in the Chinese market will have to get approval before 1 September or face the wrath of the law.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Culture which is setting up the committee said there were 140 online games widely played in China. He said there were three problems with the games: firstly they were always related to sex, violence, gambling and superstition, secondly eight out of ten were foreign games and had not been checked by Chinese authorities and thirdly some games were damaging youngster's pyschological health.

At the end of last week the Chinese government banned PC game Hearts of Iron. It was charged with "distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty and territorial integrity". The strategy wargame showed Manchuria and Tibet and West Xinjiang as independent countries. The committee will be made up of a variety of people from different social strata, according newswire Xinhuanet.com

In unrelated news it was claimed today that onetime songstress Britney Spears is getting her wardrobe approved by Chinese authorities prior to touring there. Let's hope she left those Free Tibet knickers at home.[/quote:c0fe6]

this all comes after the closing of 8,600 cyber cafes in china also http://www.theregister.com/2004/05/06/c ... fes_menta/

seems their cracking down big time.


  
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Default 06-04-2004, 04:29 PM

just shut down isp's and problem solved.
  
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Default 06-04-2004, 06:31 PM

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just shut down isp's and problem solved.
dont think they would go that far.


  
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Default 06-04-2004, 06:37 PM

Maybe that's why they've all got slitty eyes in China....they've been playing video games for far too long. This is a good move by the Chinese government. It's good for the eyes, good for the people, and good for the country! It gets my seal of approval.

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Default 06-04-2004, 07:13 PM

owned. I'd bet that they would let games based on say the revolution in China that let mao to power. I can see them making a chinese AAO kind of thing. weird though having a "Mistry of Culture" eek:
  
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