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posted by takyon on Friday September 21 2018, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the trickle dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service

Video game-streaming service Twitch has been blocked in China.

Since 20 September, Twitch's website has been unreachable from the country and its app has been removed from the local Apple App Store.

Twitch has confirmed that it is being blocked but it has not said why the authorities have imposed the restriction.

The service was cut off shortly after enjoying a significant bump in popularity among Chinese gamers. The streaming service has been gaining a larger following in China over the last few months. Many keen gamers flocked to it in late August to watch eSports matches being played at the Asian Games in Jakarta.

Not a fan of Twitch myself, but I'm even less of a fan of censorship.


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  • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Friday September 21 2018, @06:09PM (6 children)

    by zugedneb (4556) on Friday September 21 2018, @06:09PM (#738280)

    none of that explains the reason for stating explicitly in your summary: "Not a fan of Twitch myself..."
    am interested in the proportions here...

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday September 21 2018, @06:19PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 21 2018, @06:19PM (#738286)

    I can't speak for him, but some streams are "semi-professional" like Direwolf20s modded minecraft feed, and thats OK.

    But, merely 99% of the remaining streams are cringe parody of a low quality PBS fundraising drive complete with ridiculous fundraising sound effects.

    You may as well rename the entire genre from "livestreaming" to "Narcissistic personality disorder streaming" although "NPDstreaming" doesn't roll off the tongue. With a side dish of chicks in bikini's eating bananas on camera being an extremely popular subgenre. Lots of jiggle in some streams.

    Basically if you remember the shitty asshat in the back of the high school classroom laughing at his own jokes, that mixed with legalized weed, and some attention whores, is like 99% of twitch.

    Of course its not all trash, merely almost all of it.

    • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Friday September 21 2018, @06:54PM

      by zugedneb (4556) on Friday September 21 2018, @06:54PM (#738305)

      the "little people" are as they are...
      let them have their fun, and u have yours... =)

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      old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday September 21 2018, @06:27PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday September 21 2018, @06:27PM (#738291) Journal

    #NotMySummary

    Probably a lot of people here see watching people play video games as a huge waste of time. And are they wrong? Depends on what you care about.

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    • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Friday September 21 2018, @06:51PM

      by zugedneb (4556) on Friday September 21 2018, @06:51PM (#738303)

      honestly, its not that bad...
      as educated man, it is now evident that with the declining jobs and lack of actual wars with great casualties, it is not the wisest thing to remove entertaining stuff from peoples life...

      or, they will end up occupied with who believes best in God, and who is thinking lewd stuff of who's wife, or even worse...

      let us be sober here...

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      old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @07:51AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @07:51AM (#738496)

      Probably a lot of people here see watching people play video games as a huge waste of time.

      To be fair the same argument could be made to consider watching people play sports as a huge waste of time.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:56AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:56AM (#738524)

        They are both huge wastes of time. So is everything else. Watching other people do something fun rather than do it myself is not something I understand though.