PRC forces the video game Plague Inc off the Apple Store

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The pandemic simulation game Plague Inc. has been taken down from Apple’s App Store in China — after finding renewed popularity due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Sales of Plague Inc. recently surged, particularly in China, eight years after its release, amid concerns over the coronavirus officially called Covid-19. The app reportedly topped the charts for premium iOS games in China and also climbed up in the rankings in other countries such as the U.S. and U.K. as well.

Developer Ndemic Creations also flagged the app’s recognition from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other medical organizations around the world as an educational tool for people who want to learn more about how diseases spread.

The Cyberspace Administration of China found Plague Inc. to include content that is illegal in the country, according to Ndemic Creations, resulting in the game’s removal from the Chinese App Store.

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As has been noted elsewhere, there will probably be some weird growth of admiration for authoritarian regimes as the result of this crisis

Which is ironic, because the "model" authoritarian regime of Xi Jinping (China Ascendant, America in Decline) absolutely ed this up from the beginning.

yeah, but eventually they responded in extremely heavy handed ways, after a month or two of lying about it to everyone and punishing people who tried to tell the truth about it at at time when it still could have possibly been contained...but yeah, other than that the authoritarians were perfect!

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When Super Columbine Masscare RPG! and 9/11 Pilot Aviation Simulator are allowed on the Google Play Store, then sure, America can complain about this.

you say that as if the two cases are in some way the same....you understand that Google does not equal the US Federal govt right?  Any American can get those games, without having to do anything at all illegal.  The fact that that makes no difference to you, a defender of sh**t regimes, is not a surprise at all.

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in the fact that this is portrayed as a case of evil censorship unique to "authoritarian" states. The same thing exists in the United States, but it is primarily enforced usually through private enterprise or the FCC.

yeah, the PRC and USA are pretty much the exact same when it comes to censorship <biggest rolleyes in the world>


The only question left now is:are you lying or are you stupid?  Maybe some combination of the two?

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Student Jailed for 6 Months For Tweets Sent in US Showing President as Winnie The Pooh

and from The Diplomat (whatever that is)

Chinese citizens’ risk of being detained or imprisoned for accessing or sharing information online has increased considerably in recent years. During the past year alone, several new categories of individuals were targeted with legal and extralegal reprisals for their online activity. These included users of Twitter, which is blocked in China but still accessible via circumvention tools such as virtual private networks (VPNs). Numerous Twitter users were harassed, detained, interrogated by police, and forced to delete their past posts. Some users and sellers of VPNs faced similar reprisals, although on a smaller scale.

Ordinary users of WeChat increasingly faced detention and prosecution. Among others who were jailed during 2019, the moderator of a popular WeChat account that shared news from outside China was sentenced in July to two years in prison; a professor from Guangdong Province was jailed for three and a half years after posting images related to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement; and a 22-year-old Tibetan monk from Sichuan Province was arrested for expressing concern over Beijing’s policies that are reducing use of the Tibetan language. Several activists who operated websites about civil society and human rights issues also faced pretrial detention and long prison sentences. The most prominent was Huang Qi, founder of the human rights website 64 Tianwang, who was sentenced in July to 12 years in prison for “intentionally leaking state secrets.”

much more at link

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and then there is this

link goes to Freedom House

Overview
Conditions for internet users in China continued to deteriorate, confirming the country’s status as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom for the fourth consecutive year. The level of internet freedom in China also reached its lowest point since the inception of the Freedom on the Net report a decade ago. Censorship and surveillance were pushed to unprecedented extremes as the government enhanced its information controls, including in the lead-up to the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and in response to persistent antigovernment protests in Hong Kong. The growing crackdown affected tens of millions of internet and mobile phone users, resulting in heightened self-censorship and a reduction in space for online mobilization. Chinese citizens’ risk of being detained or imprisoned for accessing or sharing information online has increased considerably over the past several years. Rapid advances in surveillance technology and greater police access to user data have helped facilitate the rise in arrests and prosecutions.

China’s authoritarian regime has become increasingly repressive in recent years. The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is tightening its control over the state bureaucracy, the media, religious groups, universities, businesses, and civil society associations, and it has undermined its own already modest rule-of-law reforms. The CCP leader and state president, Xi Jinping, has consolidated personal power to a degree not seen in China for decades, but his actions have also triggered rising discontent among elites within and outside the party. The country’s budding human rights movements continue to seek avenues for protecting basic rights despite intensified restrictions.

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so you're saying the people are worse than the govt....eeeks, that's not good