Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online games, bans 9

Post by sbhn » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 2:17 PM UTC

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my first comment illuded to the eagerness of the hacker news community to engage in china bashing. I also pointed out that censorship is considered during the design process. Here is a list of games we are allowed to know about before PEGI was enforced. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games Games you are not allowed to know about would be sympathic to the cause of afghans, iranians, iraqis, syria…

Pointing out hypocrisy in the Chinese government's policies (competition, human rights, etc.) is not 'bashing'. Just as pointing out those things in other governments is not X bashing. The reason it seems to occur more often with China is because China is the rising power, and probably the power of the 21st century - its actions will be scrutinised because its actions have major consequences for the rest of the world…

Post by johneth » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 4:33 PM UTC

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Pointing out hypocrisy in the Chinese government's policies (competition, human rights, etc.) is not 'bashing'. Just as pointing out those things in other governments is not X bashing. The reason it seems to occur more often with China is because China is the rising power, and probably the power of the 21st century - its actions will be scrutinised because its actions have major consequences for the rest of the world…

China is no different than england. Anybody on the raw end of English foreign policy knows that.

Post by mrobot » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 3:56 AM UTC

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I am seeing the same thing. It seems to me an attempt to demonize the country for war or "us vs them" purposes. One major focus that i am seeing possibly overhyped is the Uyghur "camps" thing. The US government and its corporate media are suddenly just so concerned about this and i haven't seen many images or anything to really back it up. Anyway, it seems 9/10 articles that make the news now are just negative, and i…

The Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, ChinaFile [0], Foreign Policy magazine [1], Deutsche Welle, Amnesty International, and various academics have all done great independent reporting on the subject, if you care to look. Shawn Zhang [2] has done extensive open-source satellite image analysis to locate and identify many suspected camps. If you believe in gravitational waves, the speed of light, and DNA, all thin…

Post by kkarakk » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 6:25 AM UTC

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regime change by cutting off their benefits and forcing unrest seems to be the only way. waaaay too many countries are having their industries undercut by cheap chinese imports that basically rip off products. the only good thing trump has done is the china tariffs

"regime change by cutting off their benefits and forcing unrest seems to be the only way" You do realize the number of countries US has destabilized over the years is not an insignificant one? And that the results have seldom been satisfactory to anyone but the particular companies that benefitted from the escapade? What you are saying amounts to that the right of american companies to make a profit is more important…