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Article: China to ban violent video game Web sites
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 29, 2009
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BEIJING China has banned Web sites from advertising or linking
to games that glamorize violence, another step in Chinas censorship
campaign aimed at ensuring social stability ahead of the 60th
anniversary of communist rule on Oct. 1. A notice posted on the
Culture Ministry Web site on Monday said games that promote drug
use, obscenities, gambling, or crimes such as rape, vandalism and
theft are against public morality and the nations fine cultural
traditions. Such online games promote the glorification of mafia
life . . . and are a serious threat to the moral standards of
society causing vulnerable young people to be ...