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Re:Repository of censored and sensitive Chinese keywords by gambiting on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:21AM (#8739356)
Our company is releasing a version of our game for the Chinese market(now that you can officially buy the consoles and everything...) and the list of things we had to censor out is staggering. Most recent one was having to cut out a few countries from the list of available ones on the user profile creation screen, because China doesn't recognize them(like Taiwan).
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Re:Repository of censored and sensitive Chinese keywords by seszett on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:52AM (#8739568)
You can still include something like "Taiwan, province of China" can't you? It's infuriating, but still better than just removing any option for Taiwan users.
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Re:Repository of censored and sensitive Chinese keywords by gambiting on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:54AM (#8739572)
That would be technically correct, but they want you to select "China" if you live in Taiwan. "province of X" would not be a correct choice in the "country" selection box. Obviously I agree with you, but the censorship commission is incredibly strict about that and they wouldn't accept such measures to sidestep their restrictions.

Edit: I really do wonder why someone downvoted my comments. Is that because you support the Chinese censorship or for some other reason?

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Re:Repository of censored and sensitive Chinese keywords by justquest on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:34AM (#8739680)
Languages are not countries. A pet peeve I have is websites that toggle languages with a flag.

In this case, I would be curious to know if the PRC would have an issue with a traditional character option.

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Re:Repository of censored and sensitive Chinese keywords by seszett on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:50AM (#8739722)
Since traditional is used in Hong-Kong which is in PRC, I doubt they would have an issue with it.

We're not talking about languages here however, but countries. A "traditional character option" wouldn't be enough to indicate Taiwan (since languages are not countries, just like you said).

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