China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners outside Great Firewall
taiwannews.com.tw
taiwannews.com.tw
Also they'd be more nuanced now. They will likely ask/force Nintendo to crackdown than doing it themselves..
There won't be any better source. China will never publish these measures as laws or regulations, not in clear text nor formally acknowledge such "ban"h exists. It's an obscure code of conduct to extort companies in private sectors for "bad behaviour".
And yes it will be arbitrary enforced, the "ban" will differ from time to time and varies between provinces.
Taiwan's/other externals' reporting on happenings there are as close as you get to real journalism in China.
Reporting via various foreign news outlets should also be taken with a grain of salt since they cannot get the full truth without endangering their presence. Three reputable newspapers were recently kicked out of the country.
What's really going on in China is guesswork to a greater degree than elsewhere. The communist party prefers it this way.
It can't be denied that there is much misinformation/mistranslation/misunderstanding regards news from China from such unreliable sources. That calls for a nuanced analysis, that is sorely lacking in debating China related topics here.
I don't want to justify China, but the Wall Street Journal reporter who was ejected from Wuhan was overtly hostile, even cynical in their coverage, when the situation called for nuance. Also China officially has claimed the ejection of 3 US reporters a counter measure to the restrictions US has placed on Xinhua and People's Daily in operating in the US soil.
We get it, 1940s there's mass slaughter, 1980s crazy things happened when there's a nutjob in charge. It's a country with 5000 years of history and 1.4 billion people each with life stories living and thriving, and a govt having bag of problems just like everywhere else. But, to some people, like youtube/github/stackoverflow still not enough to tell me I'm less of a human being, my family my friends and our beloved dog are being 'slaughtered',
serisouly Animal Crossing?
Something will be the breaking point for this level of restriction/overreach in the name of surveillance.
It would be hilarious if it were zombies or map editing/mods.
It's amazing that Joshua Wang's actions have resulted in the game being made unavailable for an entire nation. Banning the entire game is also an incredible example of the streisand effect.
Nothing will be the breaking point short of political revolution. The CCP has gladly murdered its' own citizens by the thousands before and they will gladly do so again to maintain power. That's how authoritarian regimes work. Combined with the fact that they are powerful enough geopolitically that no other nation will do anything about it, China is set on its' dystopian nightmare future.
That may be happening now via the virus. China's case count is still around 80k, where it has been since the virus started taking off elsewhere.
Millions died in Mao's "Great Leap Forward" and then again later in his "Cultural Revolution". Not only did he lead the country through two periods of extreme death and famine, but also he is still an icon to many in China. Xi could very well do the same thing.
Many of the Chinese economic growth and development stats are fudged or are often unconsidered unreliable. I don't know why people think they'd be any more truthful about a case count.
Wuhan does have a reputation of being the #1 source of Chinese punk bands tho.
Personally I think it's a little unlikely at the moment because of China's surveillance state and generally rising standards of living in China over the last couple decades, but FWIW the Syrian Civil War was started over graffiti.
I abhor the fact that people are protesting the stay-at-home order en masse in some states, but I believe that they're looking at it from the same perspective as me. I feel it was a failure of their education to not understand the issue, and that they're doing the rational thing if they believe they're being forced into authoritarianism. I also believe they're doing the rational thing since we have very little social support system for many of those people, but that's beside the point.
If the government made all guns illegal and said "we haven't gotten rid of all guns from the streets, you must stay home or risk being shot by rogue gunmen, with a fine of $1000 for leaving home", I would also be protesting in the same way as those people today.
I can't speak for other countries, but people in the U.S. are very opposed to being told what to do, especially by their government. Most are okay with it in a pinch for a short while, but I don't think any sort of authoritarianism is going to fly in the U.S. long term.
Their policy must be to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it
If anything, I believe this will be used to create more anger towards the democracy movement in Hong Kong. Blaming these restrictions on them because they are endangering “national security”.
I remember when PUBG got “banned” in China, there wasn’t any real backlash against it. People are still playing it, although only against Chinese players.
Ever since WWII, with Marxist scholars observing that Nazi states don't receive the unrest (to them: class struggle) that we'd otherwise expect it to have, they've strongly suspected that cultural hegemony goes a long way to preventing unrest.
This comes especially into relevance when you consider that the CCP is in a position of cultural hegemony with respect to its citizens to an extent that free societies simply aren't.
The more China is able to prevent its people from accessing actually trustable institutions, the stronger its citizens obedience to it.
You say Streisand effect, but this is very greatly weakened when the state controls the most powerful communication platforms, and have suppressed communication media that it doesn't control.
China to ban online gaming with, chatting in-game with foreigners outside Great Firewall.
Right now the title is very misleading and I was concerned that even on WeChat I wouldn't be able to talk to my Chinese friends.
Very brave of you.
And sure, no reason not to use it, as long as you're 100% certain you're never going to utter anything on the platform that isn't 100% aligned with the CCP party line.
And we're not talking about spies here, we're talking about a centralized, tyrannical government building a detailed personality profile of you to make sure you are and will remain a well behaved sheep.
Google "chinese social score" if you want to know more.
Source: voicechats on csgo
They lag hard and they seem to hack and use cheats at higher percentages than non Chinese. There are lots of movements to segregate Chinese players onto their own servers in games like DotA 2 and Cs:go. The CCP decided that the people who spam the copypasta about how bad the CCP is were actually making an impact.
China literally got trolled out of video games - but it's because they trolled the world first. Reap what you sow...
Its a lot of 'fun' to play 4 v 12. Trust me. </s>
As bad as it sounds I am glad they will be kept out by their own government.
Dodgy article title.
I'll admit the article isn't exactly well written which makes me have trouble trusting it. But doesn't the above quote imply that they are in fact censoring other video games than Animal Crossing.
I not sure about this. Usually, they won't let a social platform operate without a self-censoring team, I guess they will force gaming platforms to do the same.
Covid has been, like 9/11 to us, a great way to introduce police state measure in a lot of countries.
Root cause: Confucius and his teachings.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22885689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22886182