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China Blocks Twitch (engadget.com)
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.
Did Fortnite and League lose 90%?
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.
It is logical to favour local internet developments of foreign. It is the sane thing to do, not neccesarily block but certainly deny them all government business but certainly if they want to block they should besides cunts like google offshore the income with claims of massive costs in foreign countries so they pay zero taxes.
Pay no tax in a country, than why the fuck should they allow you business to operate there, especially an internet business. Honestly with the way those cunts like Google et al behave, they should be blocked in every country where they do not pay tax on the revenue generated there, fuck them.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
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.