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Chinese Overwatch players are reporting getting banned for being baited into typing "Winnie the Pooh"
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He knows no other way and believes it works. Maybe we could paint Pooh on some Nukes for WW3, all the way to the end.
in what way are you stating that?
I just looked it up on both wikipedia and a general search of the political ruling party
The communist party is in control, but they're very not communist.
After Mao (who was an ardent communist) died, China's next leader, Deng Xiaoping introduced some reforms to the economic system, and that's when the Chinese economy actually picked up. Why do they keep the facade of a Communist state, well I really don't understand.
I thought communist countries in general are characterized by heavy censorship policies like this? and other stuff like propaganda that China also seems to do?
Winnie the Pooh isnt really banned in China. Just that meme image.
Winnie the Pooh is in KH3 thats available on the Mainland and Disney Shanghai.
You can literally find the movies and tv shows on Tencent Video:
http://v.qq.com/detail/h/hv4di3jij7mymr4.html
It seems more that Blizzard is doing it out of fear.
No. AV9G did it themselves when they wrote an article about the trailer.
Even if it's censored in China, Xi Jinping surely must know this overreaction to the Winnie the Pooh meme just makes him look a like fool to the rest of the world right? Though I guess it doesn't matter when everyone is willing to bend over backwards for him anyway.
Historically yes, but censorship is not a Communist tactic per se, plenty of right wing, fascist governments have oppresed their own people.
You can. You can watch the show, you can talk about the show on Douban or Mtime etc:
http://v.qq.com/detail/h/hv4di3jij7mymr4.html
Or talk about the Live Action or 2011 show:
http://movie.mtime.com/254191/
http://movie.mtime.com/114452/
Last time I looked into it they were calling it "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" which basically means "having your cake and eating it too". In practice China is a one-party state with a market economy.
Xi Jingping, who is basically the head of government for the China, has gotten offended by jokes that he resembles Winnie the Pooh (because he's a bit rotund, if you will).
Imagine being so insecure of your appearance you do this to your country.
I mean, I have hamster cheeks. Doesn't mean I go to Pets At Home and pint hamsters does it.
I mean, I have hamster cheeks. Doesn't mean I go to Pets At Home and pint hamsters does it.
Yet under capitalism they've retained the fascism, oppression, genocide of their own peoples, violence, Tienanmen Square 1989...
The term (and Winnie Pooh itself) isnt really censored in China, just those three meme images that float around.
Seems Blizz is for some reason scared about someone saying Winnie Pooh?
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Well, if they not bowing they will get banned, then most Chinese player won't have any chance to see a lot of the western games and movies, leave more room for domestic propaganda, don't think it's a good thing.
So them seeing propaganda because foreign media facilitates it is somehow better?
Appreciate the insight. It's not that I thought the skeletons/undead wasn't a government mandate thing, but I don't know... I guess it seems so much more naked and offensive when the it's all in service of protecting some old man's feelings, but it really isn't all that different when I think about it huh?
A reminder that NetEase is the one publishing the game in China.
Do you think North Korea is a Democracy because the country is called Democratic People's Republic of Korea ?
Okay to be exact, don't disturb your dead is a thing. People don't like digging up their deceased if they really don't have to. Certainly don't take pictures of it.
But depicting any skeletons in media? Yeah that's bullshit.
The buck for this still stops with Blizzard. It's their game.
Blizzard also has the best chance of affecting a change to this policy if this hits their reputation hard enough that they have to intervene.
what buck? The game is published by a chinese publisher and no shit a chinese publisher will avoid pissing off their government. Banning everyone on China from playing the game is not really a solution.
Even Google, one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world, had to compromise dude. Blizzard won't even register on the Chinese government radar.
No one in the Chinese government is getting pissed off about this. It takes more than just saying the name to equate this to slander against the Chinese President. Heck, there's probably no way this would show up on any radar absent it being an automated ban, given the ephemeral nature of in-game chat. Making it an automatic ban word, absent any detection of actual context, is sheer laziness, pure and simple.
Blizzard will take all the heat because no one knows or cares they don't distribute the game in China. As they should.
I really wish that the U.S and other countries would start putting pressure on media companies to put pressure on China to stop this stupid censorship.