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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.
"Ethical issues"?
Are the article writers afraid to say "government censorship" because they're worried about getting their press credentials pulled and being thrown into prison now that Hong Kong has been turned over to the Communist oligarchy?
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
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.