It is interesting that they are censoring games considered graphic, sexual or time wasting in a manner similar to the moral panics that the west has experienced about video games yet are not...
It is interesting that they are censoring games considered graphic, sexual or time wasting in a manner similar to the moral panics that the west has experienced about video games yet are not enforcing their political censorship.
I wonder if there is a view within the leadership that trivialises games as non-political.
I don't know what type of gaming backgrounds Chinese officials might have but in practise they seem to have the same blind spots as western politicians.
Perhaps they are a bit behind the times knowing games only as apolitical diversions of yesteryear like tetris.
Or possibly possess the distressingly common sort of narrow-mindedness that considers games apolitical provided they lack an extremely overt political message and otherwise reaffirm cultural norms that they already comfortable with.
It is interesting that they are censoring games considered graphic, sexual or time wasting in a manner similar to the moral panics that the west has experienced about video games yet are not enforcing their political censorship.
I wonder if there is a view within the leadership that trivialises games as non-political.
I don't know what type of gaming backgrounds Chinese officials might have but in practise they seem to have the same blind spots as western politicians.
Perhaps they are a bit behind the times knowing games only as apolitical diversions of yesteryear like tetris.
Or possibly possess the distressingly common sort of narrow-mindedness that considers games apolitical provided they lack an extremely overt political message and otherwise reaffirm cultural norms that they already comfortable with.