Of course the :reddit-logo: comments were too shitty to dig through.

  • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/671510.html seems to be the main source. The comments are coming from leaked materials of a CPC-led conference at Beijing International Game Innovation Conference back in September.

    http://www.cgigc.com.cn/info/22297.html There's more info on the guidelines on their official website. For whatever reason it's currently not loading (possibly due to increased traffic?), but I'll try uploading the .pdf files of the guidelines to somewhere if anyone knows a good place.

    https://tweet.lambda.dance/pengulican/status/1443455893664718855?s=19 The guidelines are translated to English here.

    All in all, this really doesn't look good, and doesn't seem to apply to only games - apparently various gay shows and books are affected too. Obviously there are some decent guidelines in there like the banning of imperial japan worship, regulation of gacha/pay to win exploitative 'games', etc. but it shouldn't be at the expense of LGBTQ+ comrades :sicko-no:

    • toledosequel [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Not to make light of the situation but

      games can allow the player to do bad things but ONLY IF the player later "repents" for their actions

      "Press R to Repent" lmaoooo

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        :michael-laugh: clearly China and America have more in common than previously thought

      • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        Thanks for letting me know. If this was the only source, I would have breathed a sigh of relief at it just being :cia: propaganda, but unfortunately state-owned media Sixth Tone has corroborated this information over several of their articles, so it does seem to be true, at least the parts regarding the regulations against homosexuality, feminine men, and GNC AMABs.

        • https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008389/chinas-ongoing-struggle-against-sissy-young-men
        • https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008587/chinas-gaming-body-to-bar-local-games-on-foreign-platforms

        From the last article:

        Apart from limiting access to foreign games, the agreement also emphasized the responsibility of gaming companies to monitor users via real-name registration and facial recognition to deter minors from playing. The document also expressed its commitment to combating so-called sissy men and danmei :deeper-sadness: