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Is it accurate that China has a law restricting content to fictional people and places? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've heard this but can't really search for verification. Supposedly this law forces all Chinese videogames to be set in fantasy settings. Nothing in the real world.

If this law exists I argue it should be removed. It's holding their industry back from making any culturally relevant content because nothing can be set in our world, about real lives, people or places. You'll never get a Death Stranding or Metal Gear out of China while it exists. They should untether their industry so it can produce more of cultural relevance.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do not think writing fiction for entertainment art is "falsifying history".

With that said, if you think it IS falsifying history then you must also admit that failure to compete in this space means giving this entire entertainment sector to the capitalists to falsify history in the way they want it with literally no counter balance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do not think writing fiction for entertainment art is "falsifying history".

If the setting is "historical" or "realistic" it is imo, bc, as I said above, you have to present history reductively, as a compelling, coherent narrative and with the unknowns smoothed out or filled in by imagination. (And all that is assuming the writer has done research into the topic—most artists dont)

The history of knowledge of druids, witches, the middle ages, the middle east and more demonstrates how distorted views can become when the tendencies of capitalist media are allowed to run rampant. Anti-indigenous racism are more serious examples of how these distortions can be harmfulm.

More general fiction outside of "historical fiction" isnt what the post is about, so idk why youre bringing it up. If theres dragons, magic, etc and it doesnt take place in "real life" people are significantly less likely to confuse stuff in it for real facts about histories or cultures.

giving this entire entertainment sector to the capitalists to falsify history in the way they want it with literally no counter balance.

As I understand it, that's a large part of why the firewall exists isnt it? So that the western created ideological products dont become the cultural mainstream?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If the setting is "historical" or "realistic" it is imo, bc, as I said above, you have to present history reductively

Oh man better burn Dickens or every other author that wrote fiction set in a period of history then?

This is silly.

The history of knowledge of druids, witches, the middle ages, the middle east and more demonstrates how distorted views can become when the tendencies of capitalist media are allowed to run rampant.

Anti-indigenous racism are more serious examples of how these distortions can be harmfulm.

Yes and is precisely why there should be a counterbalance to it produced out of socialist countries. Non-participation simply hands the entire sector over to them.

As I understand it, that's a large part of why the firewall exists isnt it? So that the western created ideological products dont become the cultural mainstream?

No. The firewall prevents the american tech companies from owning all the websites. The firewall allowed for Chinese companies to own the Chinese internet instead of facebook, google, twitter, etc etc. The firewall does not prevent the consumption of western artistic produce in the entertainment sector.