China Blocks Twitch (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:10PM from the it-was-fun-while-it-lasted dept.

After becoming the third most popular free app on China's App Store, Twitch is now no longer accessible and the Twitch app has been removed from the country's App Store. Engadget reports: While Twitch was available in China previously, it never gained much traction since its service is much slower than it is elsewhere. But when the country's CCTV state broadcaster chose not to air the Asian Games, those wanting to watch the event's eSports competitions sought coverage from other outlets. Now, with Twitch seemingly blocked in the country, it follows in the footsteps of other banned sites, including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Abacus first reported the news.

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Alternative Reason - Protectionism by Luthair · 2018-09-20 14:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

China has a number of popular domestic streaming platforms, perhaps the move to block twitch as it became popular is also to protect their buddies.
Re:And? by Altrag · 2018-09-20 17:50 · Score: 3, Insightful

Freedom isn't valuable to you? I mean its China and I realize talking about "freedom" in that context is like kicking the rubble after the building's already collapsed.. but every additional kick is one less pebble the Chinese people have available to them.