Twitch Is Now Banned In China!

General news News 09/22/2018

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Its application got removed, and the website is unavailable from behind the Great Firewall of China.

Abacus News reports that after the success and high viewership of Asian Games, the Chinese censors have disabled access to the streaming website, and its app (which became the third most downloaded app in no time) was also pulled in the country. (Sure, you could get around by using a VPN, but let’s not discuss the subject from that aspect…) YouTube hasn’t been available in China for years, and the same goes for Facebook and Twitter as well.

Steam is still available in China in a limited version, although Tencent, one of the major Chinese tech companies, has a competitor called WeGame available, which means Gabe Newell might get banned in the country that has over a billion people (and thus, millions of potential customers). The developers and publishers now have to wait to have their games approved because the games licenses are on a freeze at the moment, too.

China slowly locks out foreign websites from the country, and we don’t know the official reasoning behind the Twitch-ban either…

Source: GamesIndustry

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