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06/02/2004: "He's a bad mother... Shut your mouth!"

According to the BBC, China intends to monitor video game content and has set up censorship committe that's responsible for 'banning content that could "threaten national security".

A Swedish WW2 game that portrayed Manchuria, Tibet and Xianjing as independent nations has been banned and previously a title called Project IGI2: Secret Strike angered the officials for its portrayl of the Chinese army.

In future only games that are authorised by the Ministry of Culture could be imported, if those game's "contents accord with Chinese national conditions and bring positive effects to young people's mentality".

Sounds a bit like something WalMart would do.

BBC's Chinese games story.


Story from 2002 about WalMart's attempts to change games boxes and content.


I was going to try and do a piece asking Which censors more: WalMart or China?, but I'm out of lunch time, have wind and couldn't find as much information as I wanted to online. Admittedly the comparison between WalMart and China is a little ridiculous, but it would have been interesting to see which business tried to exert the most control over its customers.