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Subject: China Video Game Censorship Guidelines
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newt182 24.04.14 - 02:55am
foreign companies will be allowed to produce and sell video game consoles in China, but only if they work with a Chinese domestic business partner and run operations from the Shanghai Free Trade Zone.
The new rules also require foreign companies to submit video games for review and approval by the local Shanghai government's Ministry of Culture, which is expected to fast-track decisions on foreign video games within 20 days after they are submitted.
The list of items not permitted by new regulations include:
1. Content that violates the basic principles of Chinas constitution
2. Content that harms national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity
3. Content that endangers national security or harms national honor or interests
4. Content that incites ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, insults national pride, or hurts or infringes on China's national customs, habits, or national unity
5. Content that violates state religion policies or promotes cults or superstition
6. Content that propagates obscenity, gambling, violence or drug-related criminal activities, or that abets a crime
7. Content that's contrary to public morality or national cultural traditions
8. Any content that insults, libels others or infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of others
9. Content that other laws and regulations have already prohibited * +
newt182 24.04.14 - 02:56am
Foreign console video games will be required to use simplified Chinese characters and cannot only use traditional Chinese characters, such as those used in video games released in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The new censorship regulations appear to prevent such popular foreign video games as Grand Theft Auto 5 and Battlefield 4 from entering the Chinese game market legally, depending on how strictly the rules are enforced.
[link]http://www.ibtimes.com/china-releases-video-game-console-censorship-guidelines-foreign-companies-operating-1575316[/link] * +
newt182 24.04.14 - 02:58am
I guess the Nintendo Wii will be the best seller in China then, considering no PS4 or Xbone games will be allowed to be sold. * +
phallica 24.04.14 - 07:39am
We won't encourage independent thought, but we'll take your money. * +
spartan2 24.04.14 - 08:46am
My little pony best seller ftw * +
gooji 24.04.14 - 09:06am
Isn't Mexico also banned from producing and selling games consoles? * +
gooji 24.04.14 - 09:10am
Maybe, but Mario won't be allowed as he is breaking rule six
Violence toward small animals
Drug use - ie using mushrooms for performance gain
Also gambling and incest
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norega 25.04.14 - 09:43am
Kinect will be great for the chinese government to spy and oppress there citizens even more than they already do. * +
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