A little late on today’s post, but I’m still technically on time. Down to business, I was browsing around, being totally unproductive one day, when I stumbled upon (no pun intended) an interesting bit of news. Apparently, China had banned World of Warcraft because they didn’t want the “democratic west corrupting the People’s Republic of China (that in itself is the biggest lie here).”
Eventually, a deal was worked out, where a Chinese company would host the WoW servers, but that wasn’t the end of it. No, the all-powerful honorable chairman felt it necessary to censor a fantasy game. Apparently, the authorities felt bones were too graphic and scary for the good Chinese public. The occasional blood splatters were replaced with oily black splatters. What’s funny is that WoW isn’t even realistic- it’s a fantasy game. I mean have you ever heard of a level 72 mage attacking a school? Also, WoW is a T-rated game, meaning the target audience clearly does not consist of small children. Heck, here in the US there are E-rated games with bones and violence.
It’s just another example of how the Chinese authorities make life worse for the people living there. What’s worse is that the people have absolutely no say whatsoever in their government. Why they call it “The People’s Republic of China” is still beyond me. The internet is also censored quite harshly in China, with the Golden Shield project. Things like democracy, freedom, rights, etc. are censored from all search results, and many popular sites like Wikipedia are blocked completely. Most likely because if the public read about other countries, they’d be like “We live in a shithole… time to move out!”
However I do give them credit for making 90% of everything we use these days.
News: China declares war on America for repeated insults and verbal assaults on their great nation. On Daniel is to blame for this sudden spark of rage for his post on his blog that “China can go and” [imagination here].
Gotta give them credit for making the world’s goods, though.
“The government of China announced today, that they would be removing all telephones from their country. After 6 months of hard lobbying, the organization for Independent Speech has convinced Chinese politicians to take this action.
They argued that there are too many Wings and Wongs and that many people are becoming annoyed when others Wing the Wong number.”
O, racism….
@Jouk: Haha, that’ll be the day.
@Alec: Racism isn’t funny… but stereotypes are friggin’ hilarious!