China bans foreign investment in online video games
Found on The Register on Sunday, 11 October 2009
China has banned foreigners from investing in the country's online games industry "in any form," as a way to restrict content that censors have deemed unhealthy to the public.
The rule also prohibits foreign investors from indirectly influencing domestic online game businesses by agreements or even offering tech support.
The restrictions come on the heels of a wider campaign to shut down online games operating in China without approval and, as it were, containing "unhealthy" content.
Now if other nations would grow someballs and tell China it cannot invest inside their borders, I would have a little bit more respect for politicians. The truth however is that they only see the money coming from that regime and don't care about the people being controlled there, while China itself does everything it can to keep foreign influence which might make people think away.