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China Forms New Body To Review Ethics Risks of Video Games (scmp.com)
China has established a new body that reviews ethical issues in video gaming, marking the country's latest attempt to tighten control over the world's biggest games market. From a report: The recently formed Online Games Ethics Committee has so far evaluated an initial batch of 20 video game titles, according to a report on Friday from state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). This was the first time the committee's existence was made public. Without elaborating, the CCTV report said the ethics committee rejected nine games for publication in the domestic market, while ruling that certain content be modified in the 11 other games that were reviewed.
The report neither revealed which government department the ethics committee was directly under nor identified the 20 games that the body processed. The creation of the Online Games Ethics Committee has come amid concerns over internet addiction, childhood myopia and unsuitable content in China's US$38 billion video games market, which has led Beijing to tighten its control over the industry and freeze the approval of new titles this year.
The report neither revealed which government department the ethics committee was directly under nor identified the 20 games that the body processed. The creation of the Online Games Ethics Committee has come amid concerns over internet addiction, childhood myopia and unsuitable content in China's US$38 billion video games market, which has led Beijing to tighten its control over the industry and freeze the approval of new titles this year.
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Heh, good luck with that.
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Not what the public school unions taught you ?
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" Donald Trump's case the guy has been implicated in two felonies, but he has a 90% approval rating with his base " = 90% of Republicans are willing traitors for party. I think some of us knew this before now. Now there's proof.
CRSPR gene editing in humans.
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
Seems somewhat appropriate:
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So you're telling me a nation that has a well documented history of being possible one of the, if not the biggest, abuser of human rights is going to tell us about the 'ethics risk' of video game. China; a nation that to this day is known to execute political prisoners and religious minorities and sell their organs on the black market is unironically going to talk about ethics?
What's the sound? It's the sound of a million pots screaming toward the kettle factory at mach speed.
the state (i.e. government run) broadcaster finally revealed the secret formation and existence of a government entity whose sole purpose is to censor or outright reject video games for the domestic prc market based on ETHICS, all while providing no actual details about this "committee"....
sounds about right. welcome to the "peoples republic (haha) of china"
So far, all the "above" posters were commenting on China and human rights and other such issues. There were no pejoratives, beyond the ones you used. Self loathing is one of the saddest mental disorders. I feel so bad for you that you hate yourself and your culture so much, that you jump at imaginary SJW hobgoblins.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
need only look up to understand... pay particular attention to the Anonymous Cowards. No self loathing... :) Only loath u... :P
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OK....so the implication is that this is about Government censorship and an attempt to make games more "wholesome".
Obviously bad. No-one wants this.
But we do need a regulator to clamp down on rampant micro-transactions, loot boxes, skinner boxes and abuses of casino pyscology to trick vulnerable people out of huge sums of money for pointless nonsense.
I'm open to the possibility of government regulation.
My 2 fens (Chinese cents).
Gov. Lacky: Wang, there's a new game called RAP, could you please look into it?
Wang: (dutifully does his duty) Boss Lacky, RAP is will lead impressionable youngsters into untold acts of perfidy.
BL: Yes, but is there anything wrong with it?
Wang: Dunno, I thought perfidy was fairly wrong.
BL: Small potatoes, Wang...by the way, what does RAP stand for, some sort of rap karaoke game, figures the Japanese would be behind it?
Wang: Nope, it stands for Rage Against the Party.
BL: Wang, please issue a new edict, "Due to the immoral values promoted by the game RAP, it will be taken off the market and anyone caught playing it will submit to some gentle re-integration into proper society." And Wang, make sure the cattle prods are set to Bowel Evacuating High.
This is great! The whole video game industry needs to die. Video games are stupid and a waste of time.
So how many Social Credit points did the Motherland award you for making this post?
Too bad childhood myopia has more to do with not getting enough sunlight/being outdoors. Studies have shown that increased myopia predates video games/tablets/etc and "near work" like homework/reading is actually higher in some locales in Australia with less myopia. Now, admittedly that may not have included cramming, but the net point is the same: not enough sunlight and not enough focusing on long distance objects for extended periods fucks up your eyes.
But, then, educational is power and how could we ethically spell out that "some education good"? I mean, it's all or nothing when you're a regime like China. Hence the "ban video games" movement.
Respect for people and their cultures... especially when they look at you in admiration. Wish we had more of that here.
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Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the fish!
But seriously. Messing with the genes of an unborn baby, sending citizens to âre-education camps and making a democracy into a dictatorship is ok in China but games arenâ(TM)t?
...there's the 'Forge of Empires' add-on module that lets you create MASSIVE Uighur internment camps up in the mountains - THAT one got by the ethics censors with NO probs.!
captcha: 'speech', as in 'free', as in 'not in china'.
If knee-kicking the urban creature on the subway threatening you with a broken glass bottle for you purse is wrong, I don't wanna be right.