China's Government Must Now Approve Every Mobile Game

http://kotaku.com/chinas-government-must-now-approve-every-mobile-game-1782966997

by danso • 10 years ago

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James001• 10 years ago

That's beyond fucked up.

TazeTSchnitzel• 10 years ago

Welcome to state censorship.

jjawssd• 10 years ago

This is what happens when the government protects its people from themselves

codazoda• 10 years ago

Makes me wonder... How did this country become such a global supplier?

kiba2• 10 years ago

I suspect nothing prevent Chinese businessmen from traveling to other nations and receiving uncensored information about the global markets just like there's nothing preventing Chinese students from studying oversea.

woodandsteel2• 10 years ago

Well, yeah. But the vast majority of Chinese citizens fall into neither of those two groups, and I assume this is who this measure is aimed at.

mdanger007• 10 years ago

A large, poor workforce. The question: How can it maintain its consumer class.

bilbo0s• 10 years ago

To be fair...

it's China. It didn't HAVE a consumer class. Whatever "consumer class" it has to speak of, was developed over the last 15 years or so. And it's not much of a "consumer class" as "consumer classes" go. For instance, it's still not large relative the total population, and the savings rate of members of the "consumer class" is still through the roof.

So I think your real question is...

"How can it DEVELOP its 'consumer class'?"

chrischen4• 10 years ago

Objectively, you don't know this decision is bad yet.

trbvm2• 10 years ago

Where any decision stands on a range between good and bad is a subjective judgement.

CamperBob22• 10 years ago

How can it be good? Let's hear the devils-advocate point of view on this one.

Fej4• 10 years ago

For the population, and from a human rights perspective, this decision is objectively bad.

stvswn• 10 years ago

I'm certain it's bad, regardless of the outcome.

Fej4• 10 years ago

The Chinese government is willing to forgo living wages for its populace, environmental protections, worker safety, etc. As a result, the cost of manufacturing is dramatically lower than in developed countries.

For example, a Chinese manufacturer can just dump toxic waste in a pit. A manufacturer in the US has to dispose of waste responsibly. Naturally, this is much more expensive. Those costs are passed on through the supply chain. We want everything impossibly cheap, hence the movement of manufacturing to developing countries.

This, of course, brought tons of manufacturing to China. They have become a world power with a reasonably strong economy. Their leaders don't want to give that up, since if their people demand workers' rights, environmental protections, and so on, manufacturing will just move on to the next developing country in line.

Therefore, they decided to implement harsh censorship, in order to lower the possibility of a revolt.

criley2• 10 years ago

I mean, that's very 2000. It's 2016 and China's advantages are more moat-based than anything else.

Why do we build electronics in China? The labor isn't that much cheaper in 2016 and represents one of the smallest costs in an electronic device. An iPhone breakdown usually lists $200 in parts and labor, with $2 going to Chinese labor.

On the flip side, they have a generational moat for electronic manufacturing. You build electronics there because everyone builds electronics there. All the factories and subcontractors are all near by. The system is efficient and cost effective.

If you wanted to assemble in America you'd probably still be importing tons of Chinese parts.

netheril96• 10 years ago

That is only a small part of it. Most developing countries either sacrifice living wages, environment protections and worker safety deliberately, or have no strong governments to enforce those things, yet few are as successful as China.

bobjordan• 10 years ago

Try to get a factory approval in China these days for any non-green business and then you will find that actually the government does not condone any of the practices you've listed in your rant.

barisser• 10 years ago

Good luck with innovating.

Fej4• 10 years ago

Innovation doesn't happen too much in China, their patent/copyright laws are so weak as to strangle anyone that would attempt to do so.

icebraining2• 10 years ago

What are your thoughts on bunnie's posts on gongkai, including the documentary he made with Wired?

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=20

aianus• 10 years ago

Not sure how one can be against this censorship but support the Apple walled garden.

I remember Apple censored all Bitcoin wallets for years while they brought Apple Pay to market.

icebraining2• 10 years ago

I don't support the Apple walled garden, and wouldn't own an iOS device, but still, there's a difference between voluntarily choosing a walled garden and having it imposed by the government on all platforms.

China's Government Must Now Approve Every Mobile Game

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