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https://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.html/news/chinese-government-burns-call-of-cthulhu-supplement/
For many years, various publishers in the Americas and Europe have had their books printed in China as a cost-saving measure (including many in the RPG field). Often the primary downside of this has simply been the time taken for the books to arrive, but it appears there can also be another problem, as the publishers of The Sassoon Files (a Cthulhu-based RPG supplement) have announced that all print copies of their book have been destroyed by the Chinese Government – for unspecified reasons.
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/the-sassoon-files.html
Julio writes, "Sons of the Singularity is a small RPG publisher. Last year, they kickstarted The Sassoon Files, a sourcebook for the popular Call of Cthulhu RPG and Trail of Cthulhu RPG. As a lot of publishers, theydid[sic] the printing in China. The same day that the print was finished, a Chinese Government decided that it was "problematic", so they burned the entire print run. Targeting foreign publications is a first, specially when it seems there wasn't anything problematic (the supplement was based on Shanghai but was respetful and documented carefully).
https://sonsofthesingularity.com/setback-in-the-sassoon-files-banned-by-the-ccp/
We have suffered an unfortunate and unexpected setback with the off-set print run. On March 20th, the Chinese government ordered the destruction of our books. Although the printer returned our deposit, we need to find another printer and this will result in a delay in fulfillment. We are committed to completing the print run and fulfillment.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:24PM (13 children)
In the US nobody will ever be able to trumple on your rights and free speech.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Bot on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:49PM (8 children)
It's "PRESIDENT Trumple".
Show more respect to YOUR REGULARLY ELECTED President WHOSE TIES TO RUSSIA WERE FAKE NEWS, you soft bag of meat.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:48PM (2 children)
I am left wondering how Cthulhu rates on the Trump Book Flammability Index?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:25PM (1 child)
233C
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:36PM
That must be the Chinese Book Flammability Index which is calibrated differently. By an objective standard.
On the Trump Book Flammability Index, I suspect it would only rate about a 2.5 because it doesn't offend the great one too much. Although the TBFI is measured subjectively instead of by an objective standard, it will become a NIST standard.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:38PM (1 child)
Trumpleforeskin?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:38PM
That sounds like a small man, with tiny hands and a small misshapen mushroom, who wants to take your firstborn in order to 'date' them.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:23AM (2 children)
Shit, I'm more concerned about our politicians being controlled from Jerusalem than Moscow.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:38PM (1 child)
Just how many JavaScripts DOES the Jerusalem Post load on a browser?
I lost count.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:06PM
That is one broken site (jpost.com). It probably isn't that many scripts, but they don't give up. There is the usual plethora of scripts that appear to run once or so from the usual suspects such as google analytics, cloudflare, facebook and then you have a couple of fairly aggressive adscripts that just seem to be stuck in a loop and never give up trying to connect, when blocked they just never stops -- I guess someone forgot to put a break in the for-loop. Those are probably the once that keep on ticking. Depending on which version you get to service you there is the one that ticks up about once every 30 seconds or so and another one that is appears to be utterly broken that tries to set their ads 100+ times per second.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:53PM (1 child)
Unless a deep-pocket company claims you violated their intellectual property rights and lawyers you into oblivion. See, we have Corporate Communism here.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:46PM
They don't have to lawyer you into oblivion. They can simply remove your video from YouTube, your app from iTunes, your product from Amazon, etc.
It's about time Apple was on the wrong end of a patent lawsuit that bites.
Pinch to Zoom. And Bouncy Scrolling. Apple wanted 100% of retail price of phones as damages.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:18AM
Wilhelm Reich would like a word with you.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:33AM
What part of the world is any different in that respect? Switzerland could be a hellhole two centuries from now!
What is different is that China can and does destroy peoples' property now without regard for the law and won't compensate for the harm they cause while the US has laws against that based on very fundamental protections for everyone.