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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.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday September 21 2018, @06:19PM (1 child)
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
the "little people" are as they are...
let them have their fun, and u have yours... =)
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax