Chinese Gov't Bans Game
The Chinese government has officially banned the Swedish game Hearts of Iron because it portrays "Manchuria, Tibet and Xinjiang as independent nations", according to this BBC Technology article.
The government has also set up a task for which will specifically monitor video game content for objectionable and anti-national content.
This isn't the first such ban. Australia, Greece, and Germany have made international headlines for outlawing games which have violent content. Germany went so far as to remove Nazis from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, a game where Allied soldiers battle against, uh, Nazis.
Jun 1, 2004 at 07:27 AM by Brad King in Current Affairs | Permalink
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