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Basically they’ll be using a massive multiplayer online game as a gateway (proxy, almost) for censored content. Whether this is a genuine avenue, an in-your-fa
by qubex 7y ago
Basically they’ll be using a massive multiplayer online game as a gateway (proxy, almost) for censored content.
Whether this is a genuine avenue, an in-your-face hack, and/or whether it will lead to illiberal regimes banning access to aforementioned MMOs remains to be seen.
It’s definitely clever, though.
- rbanffy 7y ago> it will lead to illiberal regimes banning access to aforementioned MMOs remains to be seen I'm surprised MMOs are not regularly blocked. Most of them can be used as chat platforms, replacing applications that are already blocked.
- leggomylibro 7y agoHomeland security did used to watch games like WoW out of concern that terrorists used it to communicate; I dunno if that's still a thing with the rise of encrypted messaging platforms, though. The same idea came up in the movie Four Lions, where the main characters use Club Penguin to talk about their plans. https://imdb.com/title/tt1341167/ https://imdb.com/title/tt1341167/
- pessimizer 7y agoAlso a major plot element of series two and three of the more recent Norwegian show Okkupert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied
- lozaning 7y agoAlso I think Homeland, where some online mideival knights game for ps2 was used.
- nwallin 7y agoEve Online has a separate server for mainland China than for the rest of the world. Presumably it's subject to government monitoring. Does WoW have China hosted servers?
- andykx 7y agoYes. They play on a heavily modified client as well. https://www.engadget.com/2014/01/17/wow-archivist-wow-in-china-an-uncensored-history/ https://www.engadget.com/2014/01/17/wow-archivist-wow-in-chi...
- chrisco255 7y agoMaybe the plan should be to continue to rebuild this in every virtual world that takes off?
- Dahoon 7y ago> illiberal regimes What does that definition even cover? China? Russia? The US?