Internet Censors visit Chinese Warcraft Skeletons
By Chienne - Mon Jul 9, 2007 10:31am
When you think of China, you may well think of social and political harmony ...even if that harmony is imposed by a higher force and not something naturally occurring. Such is the case in a recent development affecting World of Warcraft.
Apparently, the undead skeletons ingame are seen to be offensive - "naked", some might say - and Chinese players are understandably upset after their characters were given some fashionable flesh to dance around in. This is, of course, in accordance to a secret government ban on bare bones.
Local company The9, which runs WoW in China, has edited the Scourge race to remove any pesky bones protruding through flesh - and have apparently changed ingame corpses to tombs, instead.
The race had been deemed "too scary" - but even scarier is the fact the crackdown highlights just how much internet control and censorship is imposed in China by the ruling Communist party.
Apparently, the undead skeletons ingame are seen to be offensive - "naked", some might say - and Chinese players are understandably upset after their characters were given some fashionable flesh to dance around in. This is, of course, in accordance to a secret government ban on bare bones.
Local company The9, which runs WoW in China, has edited the Scourge race to remove any pesky bones protruding through flesh - and have apparently changed ingame corpses to tombs, instead.
The race had been deemed "too scary" - but even scarier is the fact the crackdown highlights just how much internet control and censorship is imposed in China by the ruling Communist party.
Excerpt from The Ballad of the Skeletons
Allen Ginsberg
...
Said the Underdeveloped skeleton
We want rice
Said Developed Nations' skeleton
Sell your bones for dice
Said the Ayatollah skeleton
Die writer die
Said Joe Stalin's skeleton
That's no lie
Said the Middle Kingdom skeleton
We swallowed Tibet
Said the Dalai Lama skeleton
Indigestion's whatcha get
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