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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: 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.