Arcane copyright laws aren't just for corporate brand protections or future revenue protections, you can also use them to facilitate your ridiculous political agendas or suppress views you disagree with. No surprise then after big corps got their say in copyright law that bigots and crazies get their chance to abuse it by telling people they can't express regular views while streaming their gameplay for a game they 'own'.

I'm waiting for the tech to proliferate that allows them to enforce even more ridiculous licenses, like I can only listen to my music in one room in my house and if I want to listen to it in another room, I need to buy another license for that. Perhaps there will be another one where I can watch a movie with friends if I buy the watch party license but we won't be allowed to talk about any plot holes in the movie.

Obviously these requests are insane but not surprising.

This is just sad. All the MAGA shit heels and any other weird loser needs to fuck off. I was at no risk of buying this game, so now that I definitely won't that's no brave stand. I just wish games could be played and entertained without shitty companies treating their employees like garbage and the MAGA weirdos showing up to pat each other on the back.

This... seems odd. It's an extremely small medium author with a google doc that looks like it was made... not by a professional marketing team. Chinese or otherwise. It also doesn't seem like any other streamer has received similar stipulations? Yet? Trying to be generous.

If it's true it sucks, but the phrasing is really odd, even / especially for a literal translation. It seems much more like an attempt to go viral.

A few journalists and streamers have said the agreement they received looks nothing like this one. E.g. Jordan Middler, Andy Cortez.

And worth noting, the google doc in question, which has been edited since this went viral, supposedly originally listed gamesciencemat@gmail.com in the mailto before it was later changed to mkt@gamesci.com.cn. The doc also has the developer listed as "Game Science" when even this article repeatedly points out that the developer makes clear their name is meant to be referred to as GameScience, all as one word. And furthermore, the Facebook link in the doc is a YouTube redirect, not a direct link. All those things makes me think this is a hoax... and IMO, not even a very well crafted or believable one.

I feel like this further emphasizes how broken our system of news media is. The press requires handouts from the industry to stay apace in the war for clicks. Meaning the industry can can punish anything that is against the narrative they want to push. This isn't a new thing, or a Chinese exclusive thing, it's just the most recent and egregious example of why the current system is bad.