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Strategy Videogame Upsets Chinese, Gets Banned

Posted by simoniker on from the hearts-of-irony dept.

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]"

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  1. The problem is... by BSDCoder · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    China to become more of a capitalist country... The problem is, that is not going to happen any time soon.

    1. Re:The problem is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You are aware that market-wise China is one of the most capitalist countries in the world?

    2. Re:The problem is... by d474 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I agree. Afterall, Capitalism isn't protecting our freedoms of civil liberties, courtesy of the Patriot Act.

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    3. Re:The problem is... by John+Pliskin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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.

      $

  2. When you go to the polls.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .... and vote for the Bush/Ashcroft Patriot Tag Team, remember that this is what you're voting for.

    The truth doesn't just hurt these types of people... it scares them to death.

    1. Re:When you go to the polls.... by TastyWords · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And if you vote for "Hanoi John"[1] Kerry, China will invade Taiwan, and he'll end up being like Carter and make everyone stay home during the next Olympics.

      Q: In the previous forty years[2], forty-nine members of Congress have run for the office of President. How many have won?
      A: None.

      Is anyone counting how many votes Kerry is missing as a Senator because he's out running around, hoping to garner enough interest so it won't look like a landslide (against him) in November? A couple of those votes have been Democratic-sponsored bills and defeated by one vote(!) (I wonder whose vote was missing? And do you know what his response has been? "Bush made me do it."

      [1]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.
      [2]Before any of you numbnuts mention Kennedy, this is 2004. He ran in 1960. 2004-40=1964. He'd screwed his last woman on the side by then (he was dead)

  3. Remember Guatanmo Bay and Abu Gharib ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    the World wont forget that truth in a hurry, unfortunatly its the USA citizens in the end that are going to suffer

  4. Bloody mod me up already! by BSDCoder · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it tradition not to mod up /. newbies? I have been an AC on slashdot for sometime, I am not a newbie.

  5. Re:China censors people.... by ericspinder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The value of pi is "like" 3 according to the bible! Apparently God only likes dealing in round numbers too.

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  6. Hypocrisy rules ... by foobsr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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

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  7. Vietnam (OT) by No+Such+Agency · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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...

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  8. Re:Of course China wants to cover up Tibet Genocid by king-manic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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