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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, Insightful) by zugedneb on Friday September 21 2018, @05:49PM (8 children)
"Not a fan of Twitch myself..."
How so?
1. it is interesting to see pro players players, one can learn a lot...
2. it can be run in the background like a random radio show, there are some interesting streamer-viewer interaction on certain channels, at least...
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, @06:03PM (7 children)
Could be more fun to watch Twitch compilations on YouTube, where someone has gone and screened out the hours upon hours of boring parts. Or Mr. Beast donating thousands of dollars to streamers [youtube.com].
That said, I agree with #2, there is enough content on YouTube (autoplay on), online live news channels (CBSN, Al Jazeera, or all of the big ones with a Kodi setup), Twitch, internet radio streams, etc. to be playing something in the background goddamn forever.
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(Score: 1) by zugedneb on Friday September 21 2018, @06:09PM (6 children)
none of that explains the reason for stating explicitly in your summary: "Not a fan of Twitch myself..."
am interested in the proportions here...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(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
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday September 21 2018, @06:27PM (3 children)
#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
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...
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)
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
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.