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Is it accurate that China has a law restricting content to fictional people and places? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Awoo@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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I've heard this but can't really search for verification. Supposedly this law forces all Chinese videogames to be set in fantasy settings. Nothing in the real world.

If this law exists I argue it should be removed. It's holding their industry back from making any culturally relevant content because nothing can be set in our world, about real lives, people or places. You'll never get a Death Stranding or Metal Gear out of China while it exists. They should untether their industry so it can produce more of cultural relevance.

Can anyone verify?

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the setting is "historical" or "realistic" it is imo, bc, as I said above, you have to present history reductively

Oh man better burn Dickens or every other author that wrote fiction set in a period of history then?

This is silly.

The history of knowledge of druids, witches, the middle ages, the middle east and more demonstrates how distorted views can become when the tendencies of capitalist media are allowed to run rampant.

Anti-indigenous racism are more serious examples of how these distortions can be harmfulm.

Yes and is precisely why there should be a counterbalance to it produced out of socialist countries. Non-participation simply hands the entire sector over to them.

As I understand it, that's a large part of why the firewall exists isnt it? So that the western created ideological products dont become the cultural mainstream?

No. The firewall prevents the american tech companies from owning all the websites. The firewall allowed for Chinese companies to own the Chinese internet instead of facebook, google, twitter, etc etc.