The Chinese government plans to regulate online games more tightly
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| He said, according to China Daily, that one such measure would be to support
| certain games as "green" games. Games that in his opinion encouraged killing
| and gambling in order to increase their attractiveness to players and profits
| for the manufacturers would have to meet more onerous conditions in future in
| order to be authorized.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102002/from/rss09
Also new (and unsurprising):
China overtakes the USA in its number of internet users
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102018/from/rss09
The Inquirer was blocked by China starting last month. And now this?
Mike Magee to leave the INQUIRER
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| FOUNDER of the INQ, Mike Magee, is to leave the magazine at the end of
| February.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/18/mike-magee-leave-inquirer
Welcome to the new WWW. You can only watch 'healthy' content and the West is
becoming more like China all the time.
Related:
China limits providers of Internet video
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| China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos — including
| those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to sites run by state-controlled
| companies and require providers to report questionable content to the
| government.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5icR8HXvp5Ke6b1AVqREmk_chVWYAD8TUC7PO0
China cracks down on 'vulgar' video
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| China is launching a nationwide crackdown on sexually suggestive video and
| audio products, in the latest effort by government censors to curb content
| considered to be in bad taste.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080106/ap_on_hi_te/china_video_crackdown
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