Hello everyone and welcome to A Pretty Normal Podcast, a show that re-imagines what society considers normal. Each week I interview different guests about the topics they’re most passionate about.
This week I wanted to focus my monologue on something I believe deserves a lot of attention and discussion. China continues to build a virtual, cyber wall between their citizens and critics in the outside world. The Chinese Communist Party is taking its online censorship to a new extreme by blocking its people from playing Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Many players have taken to Animal Crossing to continue the Hong Kong protests.
The communist regime has noticed an authority vacuum in online multiplayer games, which enables people to freely socialize without monitoring. So new laws are being made.
One-player online games will also be subject to surveillance, as a new real-name mechanism is going to be implemented in China. Also, the new law will not allow for zombies and plagues, map editing, roleplaying, as well as organizing a union in games
Listen to my weekly monologue and let me know what you think about China and the cyber wall they are creating.
Monologue Research Links:
China to ban online gaming, chatting with foreigners outside Great Firewall
China bans sale of Animal Crossing: New Horizons after it becomes a haven for Hong Kong protesters
Why Hong Kong is protesting: Their five demands listed
Inside Chinese camps thought to be detaining a million Muslim Uighurs
A million Muslims are held in detention camps that China now portrays as 'humane'
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