Posted on 09/09/2021 4:58:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Beijing (AFP) - Chinese authorities have ordered gaming giants Tencent and NetEase to end their focus on profits and cut content perceived to be breeding "effeminacy", as Beijing tries to direct youth culture, gender ideals and the reach of big tech.
The move is the latest by authorities to tighten their grip on the embattled technology sector and sent shares in some of the industry's biggest names plunging.
Officials on Wednesday summoned gaming enterprises including Tencent and NetEase, the two market leaders in China's multi-billion-dollar gaming scene, to discuss further curbs on the industry, which has already been ordered to limit gaming time to three hours a week.
Among the new targets are media representations of men, which experts say are a cause for anxiety among the conservative, older generation of Communist Party leaders.
In recent days, regulators have ordered broadcasters to resist "abnormal aesthetics" such as "sissy" men, calling for more masculine representations in programming.
Late Wednesday official Xinhua news agency reported the latest edicts against gaming.
"Obscene and violent content and those breeding unhealthy tendencies, such as money-worship and effeminacy, should be removed," it said.
Enterprises who flout rules will be punished, authorities warned.
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Oh boy, this is going to be fun.
Make this person Ambassador to China...
Hideous! The neo Helen Thomas.
Indeed. In this case, absolutely.
It’s next to impossible to see how we can compete against a country that demands men act like MEN, and doesn’t put up with this girlie crap.
ChiComs gearing up for war. Surplus of males, have to make them useful for something.
How come China and Russia gets this stuff right, and we don’t?
I understand the allure of having the state regulate Bad Things. But that typically doesn't lead to an efficacious result though it creates an easement by which Leviathan can curtail liberty that's demonized by leftists.
Adam Clark comments on the destruction of the Southern Kingdom by (the descendants of Ishmael). Clark speaks of the Jewish rebellion against God and the destruction of Jerusalem as punishment for sin. God would not bear with their continual profligacy. Were ever people more highly favored, more desperately ungrateful, or more signally punished! What a lesson is their history to the nations of the earth, and especially to those who have been favored with the light of revelation!
If Americans succeed in destroying the nation, if our future is parallel to some dystopian novel, we'll have only ourselves to blame.
Soy boy cultures are going to be buried by Red China.
What a disgusting human being that thing is.
Helen Thomas was at least devoid of a Y chromosome. And she was actually decently pretty in her youth. This... this isn’t... *shudder*
More pandas less man buns.
They don’t want a bunch of mentally ill trans freaks or fags running their country like ours.
>between 8pm and 9pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays,
I hadn’t read this part before ... so the CCP has figured out how to mass scan the games for wrongthink, but can’t do it 24/7.
Yuck, eyewash needed.
There are a bunch of FReepers okay with what the Chinese are doing. Tyranny is apparently okay if it destroys something one doesn’t care for.
We can do the same thing here by not letting those garbage games into our lives — and not being afraid to tell people about it.
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