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Highly relevant hackernews comment from 2020: > It's worth noting that this project will likely not benefit the people of China. A somewhat obscure fact is tha
by nonethewiser 3y ago
Highly relevant hackernews comment from 2020:
> It's worth noting that this project will likely not benefit the people of China. A somewhat obscure fact is that China has its own edition of Minecraft which cannot connect to servers of the mainstream edition.
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178
- debugnik 3y ago> In-game text content is heavily censored, including but not limited to chat, Book and Quills, Written Books, Signs, Command Blocks, renamed items (via Anvils) and mobs (via renamed Spawn Eggs or Name Tags) > Censorship also applies to any text in the launcher, such as community posts, comments on contents, and private messages. Rental servers and virtual LAN games are not allowed to have names altogether, instead being referred to by a numerical ID I guess you don't need any obscure packet inspection if you can just censor the clients and servers directly instead. This feels like the censorship equivalent of the wrench XKCD.
- nottorp 3y agoJava edition still seems to allow connecting to arbitrary servers: 'Different from rental server, the owner has full permission Usually adopt third-party server application' So there is a way around? Edit: and tbh in China they're more likely to play a pirated java edition.