Twitch is now blocked in China

Posted by neaden on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:53PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/20/17883736/twitch-china-block-app-store

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Re:Twitch is now blocked in China by tcsf on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:08PM (#18035487)

I saw this talk last year comparing the live stream industries in China and US from Twitch engineer Yueshi Shen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Ki-w84rP4

needs a bit of an update now..

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Re:Twitch is now blocked in China by neaden on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:55PM (#18035384)

It seems pretty clear at this point that the CCP does not want any big media/social media platforms allowed in their country unless they can control it.

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