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Strategy Videogame Upsets Chinese, Gets Banned
An anonymous reader writes "China's State News Agency, Xinhua reports that China's Ministry of Culture has banned a computer game for 'distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty and territorial integrity'. Paradox's PC strategy game 'Hearts of Iron', was accused of distorting historical facts in describing Manchuria, West Xinjiang, and Tibet as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. 'All these severely distort historical facts and violate China's gaming and Internet service regulations,' the Ministry's Game Products Censorship Committee said. 'The game should be immediately prohibited.' [via China Digital]"
Wow, I hope they never get their hands on Civilization...
Hope they dont see this.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
their collective heads will explode.
To really piss them off, send them a copy of Shadow Warrior.
If I post "CHINA SUCKS!!", how long do you think it will be before the Ministry's Game Products Censorship Committee bans slashdot as a violation of Internet service regulations??
Banned is so in. If you get your game, film, book, music, t-shirt or pretty much anything you can banned then everyone will want it. Even if you cant get it banned, just get it disliked by some authority and you've got a sure winner, infact even the people who hate it will want to see what all the fuss is about! Just some recent examples:
The Passion of the Christ (have you seen it?)
GTA (Australia, germany, blood-patch?)
Michael Moore films (Always winning Oscars)
Teenage Sex (Its all about Bush!)
CSS t-shirts (ok no-one outside slashdot cares but still)
Nick-Berg video (No-one gave a url... 3 days later everyone had it)
and ofcourse (see sig) the Vanunu interview by the BBC which has been smuggled out of Israel and gets aired tomorrow (like totally in your face sharon!)
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You misspelled "Berkeley, California".
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.
What would happen if a game had all Linux boxen named "SCONIX" instead? Slashdotters would probably push for a ban ;-)
Table-ized A.I.
If I can add to that, I don't see a reason to think that the original diameter is intended to express more than one significant digit.
-Dave
Sigh, another pompous self-important, non0american know-it-all...
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
No, seriously, you really did misspell "Berkeley, California".
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.