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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]"
I agree. Afterall, Capitalism isn't protecting our freedoms of civil liberties, courtesy of the Patriot Act.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
The value of pi is "like" 3 according to the bible! Apparently God only likes dealing in round numbers too.
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
USA CENSORSED IRAQ REPORT
According to the German Press Agency DPA, the Iraq weapons dossier report (from which the above information came), was reduced from a 12,000 page report to only 3,000 pages.
CC.
P.S.: -42, flamebait
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
You're both idiots; you understand that right? ...right?
Capitalism, pure true, John Galt style, Capitalism won't ever be.
The Atlas's are dead, long dead; sad fact yes, but it won't happen.
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Yeah, he was a Vietnam War hero, and when he came back, he protested side-by-side, at Jane "Hanoi Jane" Fonda's protests - he'd become a pacifist and has remainded one ever since, including now.
I find it amazing how America is STILL fighting that damn jungle war, thirty years later. Those little men in black pyjamas not only kicked the U.S. out of Vietnam, they chased it all the way back across the ocean and have been a major force in every Presidential election since...
Freedom: "I won't!"
The difference, of course, is that nothing's being banned in the US because it speaks unfavorably of our past. That is not insignificant.
Farenheight 9/11.
Corprate self censorship is censorship none the less.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."