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posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:22PM   Printer-friendly
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Chinese state censors won't be permitting Pokémon Go and other augmented reality games anytime soon:

Nintendo's hit smartphone app, Pokemon Go, and other augmented reality games are unlikely to be rolled out in China any time soon, after the state censor said it would not license them until potential security risks had been evaluated.

[...] Prompted by "a high level of responsibility to national security and the safety of people's lives and property," the censor, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, is coordinating with other government departments to evaluate the game's risks, an industry body said. These risks include the "threat to geographical information security and the threat to transport and the personal safety of consumers", a games panel of the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association, which is governed by the censor body, said in a posting on its website.

Some Chinese companies have been developing similar games based on augmented reality and location-based services, prompting the panel to seek advice from the top licensing body, it said.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:12PM (#452669)

    No, you were responding to a rhetorical question; it wasn't a question at all.

    Check your reading comprehension, "ikanreed".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:18PM (#452672)

    Your rhetorical question was still a point being made, you don't get to magically evade criticism that way.

    Your mutilation comment was an extreme response to something that wasn't even stated, check your own reading comprehension and stop drawing conclusions for other people.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:27PM (#452675)

      Extreme? irrelevant? Here, let me help you: How can anybody stand having these control-freak bureaucrats of religion cutting up little boys' and girls' sexual organs (let alone their own sexual organs)?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:06PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:06PM (#452691)

        When a girl's sexual organs are cut up, that oppression, and it's your fault you male. You implicitly endorse it every time it happens. You mind control the hands of the old woman who uses the knife.

        Now, when a boy's sexual organs are cut up, you just need to get used to the idea. You're a sexual object. Deal with it, faggot.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:42PM (#452715)

        Extreme? Yes. Your example is too extreme to have a conversation about relative morality since the overwhelming majority of people would be against sexual organ mutilation and would find it morally reprehensible. It polarizes and derails the conversation.

        Irrelevant? No, I never said that.

        The topic at hand is Chinese government censorship of augmented reality software, not sexual mutilation. Get back to the topic on hand and stop this stupid tangent.

        If it makes you feel any better I am against any physical mutilation regardless of gender. Is this a massive troll move to get someone to point out circumcision in the US?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:08PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:08PM (#452728)

          Do you even mathematics, bra? Taking a statement (e.g., a formula) to the [extreme] limit is one of the cornerstones of logical discourse.

          If you don't like the results of taking the limit, then maybe you ought to review your position.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:36PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:36PM (#452746)

            Check your spectrum hun.