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China to Ban Live Webcasts; Three Minutes Minimum Delay Required
- Havoc 7y agoDoes the word Live translate poorly or something? There is no "almost live" when you've got a chat box running. Half the streams start with "can you hear me" - are they just gonna wait 3 mins for an answer? Its just not practical
- Arbalest 7y agoThis is surely going to be dead obvious when no one who is "live" responds immediately, even something as simple as a chuckle to something actually funny.
- haecceity 7y agoI wonder what their rationale is? Don’t most twitch streamers have a delay? I thought it was to deter trolls.
- Mo3 7y agoProbably to be able to react to "banned" content before its actual broadcast.
- jariel 7y agoIt's for when sneaky guests hint at illegal things and ask circumspect questions, or possibly people in the audience don't behave as told. etc. it's a propaganda filter.
- mantap 7y agoLatency is generally considered a bad thing on Twitch. The lower the better. 5 seconds is good. ~10 seconds is acceptable, 20 seconds or more starts to become intolerable.
- imtringued 7y agoReminds me of how streamers in Germany are getting broadcast licenses even though some of them only have 3 viewers. I'm wondering how long it will take until you need one for a skype call.
- PavlovsCat 7y agoThe thing is, in Germany you can make a huge fuss and try to change the law, without having to fear for your life. You remind me of the tankies and useful idiots that crawl around here en masse. I'm wondering how long it will take for dang to post fan art of Xi.
- agustif 7y agoNice, the chinese are getting their citizens used to the delay's that interplanetary comm's like mars<->earth will imply. It's the future