China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/08/04/china_gamer_id_law/
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Feng Shixin, an official from the Communist Party's Central Publicity Department, said late last week that online games would need to implement a new state-run authentication system when it rolls out in September.
Under the new system, gamers must register to play video games using their real names. These names can then be checked against their in-game IDs. Local gaming giants Tencent and NetEase have already begun introducing their own verification systems but this one will be State-controlled.
Feng also said that the central government was encouraging the domestic industry to create games that are "creative, tasteful, and warm", a signal that China will tolerate games if they don't encourage what authorities deem to be anti-social attitudes and behaviours.
China already requires game publishers to submit games to the central government for review before they can be distributed in the country.
Regulators would ramp up their inspection of games allowed in the country in the coming months, Feng said. In the first half of this year, nearly 100 games were punished for operating without authorisation. Earlier this month, Apple removed thousands of unapproved games from its Chinese App Store, closing a loophole that game makers have relied on for years.
The latest moves are consistent with China's never-ending quest to tame its domestic internet. Last month, the country's internet watchdog [1]called out several live-stream channels for spreading trashy content, including scantily-clad female presenters.
But extending the usage of real names to gaming signals that China's authoritarian state is increasingly worried about the country’s gaming culture. In 2018 the government established its own gaming regulator, the State Administration of Press and Publication, or SAPP, which promptly slapped new limits on how much time and money minors could spend playing games. ®
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Re: So I suppose ...
Dammit sir, you beat me. I clicked the comment icon with the word 'Poohsticks' in my fingers, all ready to type.
Re: So I suppose ...
Oh dear, I thought that the leader of the CCP was big enough anyway?
(Isn't Pooh-bear on the banned list anyway?).
Fuck the CCP
And fuck the Tories and Labour for trying to emulate some of their policies.
Re: Fuck the CCP
"And fuck the Tories and Labour for trying to emulate some of their policies."
Which policies would these be, please?
Well that's going to be quite restrictive
" China will tolerate games if they don't encourage what authorities deem to be anti-social attitudes and behaviours "
I'm guessing that shooting people, blowing them up and bombing them are not considered to be very social attitudes.
So that's EA's entire triple-A lineup except sports forbidden in China, then. No more Counter Strike, 7 Days to Die, Diablo III or IV, Battlefield, Fortnight any other shooter either.
I'm guessing SimCity still qualifies ?
Re: Well that's going to be quite restrictive
Let's see if they keep PUBG or not..
"shooting people, blowing them up and bombing them are not considered"
Without the Party approval of course not. If a game allows to shoot, blow and bomb Tienamen or Hong Kong protesters probably it will be fine.
While PLA may need to know the real names of those considered "interesting" subjects....
Don't worry, it's coming here soon too
With all the SJW/Woke/BLM movements, protests, bullying etc it really won't be long before our new Overlords will be advocating exactly the same thing..
The major Social Media platforms are already conforming to what can and cannot be said, so it's just a question of time.... And as long as the Big Corps continue to make money they will happily go along with it.....
No one is standing up against anything recently to what's to stop it happening sooner rather than later ?
Re: Don't worry, it's coming here soon too
Is it? Really?
Or are the bigots just fucked off that they don't have free rein anymore....
I certainly have access to all kinds of right wing nonsense via the internet, is yours not working?
Re: Don't worry, it's coming here soon too
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I certainly have access to all kinds of right wing nonsense via the internet, is yours not working?
You should try the left wing nonsense as well........ almost as batshit crazy as the right wingers..
Caught a rant about racists on one, that if you changed the word "racist" for the word "jew", it would almost read like a goebballs speach from the 1930's...
simcity
can't play a winnie the pooh game but simconcentrationcamp is fine by their official standards
Also any game installed on a phone now provides another way to map your physical GPS-connected device to your verified identity, interesting if you're a gamer in hong kong...
Is there no societal problem to be addressed?
I wonder how many folk/youngsters think there be no lasting consequences for real acts of physical violence against property and/or persons as portrayed on their video devices and as I imagine are pimped and pumped online and as be the responsibility of the likes of all these sorts of market leaders ..... " So that's EA's entire triple-A lineup except sports forbidden in China, then. No more Counter Strike, 7 Days to Die, Diablo III or IV, Battlefield, Fortnight any other shooter either. "
Re: Is there no societal problem to be addressed?
They will be allowed if they are sold to a Chinese company and the state gets a "large percentage" of the sale price.
Can't imagine where I got that idea from!
So I suppose ...
.... they want nothing but nice, innocent games like pinning the tail on Eeyore, and feeding Pooh-bear hunny?