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Twitch vanishes in China weeks after spike in popularity

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  1. deciduous
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    Guess twitch got too big and was finally banned, not too surprising. Even aside from the censorship of outside media thing, I doubt China wants an american company competing with Chinese owned...

    Guess twitch got too big and was finally banned, not too surprising.

    Even aside from the censorship of outside media thing, I doubt China wants an american company competing with Chinese owned streaming and television platforms.

    7 votes
  2. 4rm
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    Pretty hard to censor anything live, especially so if the streamers live outside the country. Makes (unfortunate) sense.

    Pretty hard to censor anything live, especially so if the streamers live outside the country. Makes (unfortunate) sense.

    3 votes
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    DonQuixote
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    I'm in the U.S. here. Has it ever hit you that we are most likely being censored as well? We just don't see it that way from the inside? We think of ourselves pridefully as being the most free...

    I'm in the U.S. here. Has it ever hit you that we are most likely being censored as well? We just don't see it that way from the inside? We think of ourselves pridefully as being the most free place on the planet, but with all the control the providers have, who's to say?

    1. 4rm
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      Of course information is censored from us. We're exposed to tons of propaganda daily. These things have been happening for years and years too. We rank lower than you might think on most of the...

      Of course information is censored from us. We're exposed to tons of propaganda daily. These things have been happening for years and years too. We rank lower than you might think on most of the "Free-est _____ in the world" lists. It's all propaganda.