Bazinga: China bans The Big Bang Theory from streaming sites
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[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/business/international/china-orders-4-us-shows-off-streaming-sites.html[/url]
[quote]Chinese regulators have ordered streaming video websites nationwide to take down four popular American TV series, a move that precedes new regulations seeking to close a loophole that has allowed foreign shows to flourish online, even as censors have limited them on broadcast television.
Censors with the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television issued orders for video sites to stop showing “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Good Wife,” “NCIS” and “The Practice,” employees of two online streaming sites said Sunday. According to one employee, the order was issued Friday. Unlike previous take- down orders, this one was accompanied by no explanation from the authorities, the employees said.
After years of allowing foreign TV shows to rack up millions of views on Chinese streaming video websites, skirting the strict quotas and censorship enforced on broadcast networks, the government has indicated in private talks with Internet companies that it plans to close this control gap with new rules this year, company employees say.
In recent years, American shows like AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries” and Netflix’s “House of Cards” have found avid online audiences in China, particularly among the growing middle class. With plenty of violence, superstition and scandal — all themes Chinese government censors frown upon — these shows would most likely never have made it onto Chinese television. But through the Internet, where censorship of online videos is looser than on TV, they have gained millions of fans through video websites that legally license the shows. And the government has taken note.[/quote]
I wouldn't mind it disappearing from TV aswell
bazooper
don't really like this show, but it can be funny occasionally.
bepzinki
I don't mind it, I'll watch it if nothing else is on.
bimzapy
china did something agreeable for once
It's funny if you have very shallow knowledge of nerds and geeks.
I just don't get why they're cracking down on these shows in particular. If you're gonna start somewhere, start with what wont be missed I guess?
bowzongers
China's list of human rights abuses just lost one item from the list.
[QUOTE=Simski;44666393]It's funny if you have very shallow knowledge of nerds and geeks.[/QUOTE]
the strange thing is that I've seen people exactly like the characters in the show
freaky..
why take down something no one watches
bazoodfasjio
[QUOTE] a move that precedes new regulations seeking to close a loophole that has allowed foreign shows to flourish online.[/QUOTE]
Wait, this is done just to censor foreign TV shows?
Bapizingbaba.
Is The Good Wife worth watching? I've heard the writing is good.
Zimbabwe.
[QUOTE=lekkimsm;44666541][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs[/media]
Candlejackzipzop[/QUOTE]
I always like to imagine that this show is actually set in front of a live audience and they're actually all hostages, forced to laugh at the shit jokes under penalty of death. That's how I survived having to watch this show when my ex-girlfriend would watch it all the time(her being my ex possible not related to her liking this show).
[QUOTE=draugur;44666613]I always like to imagine that this show is actually set in front of a live audience and they're actually all hostages[/QUOTE]
It is actually shown in front of a live audience.
[url]http://the-big-bang-theory.com/tickets[/url]
I dunno how I feel about The Big Bang Theory, but these damn Dragons need to stop being so censorship-heavy. They're a threat to freedom the way they're going.
[QUOTE=Saber15;44666749]It is actually shown in front of a live audience.
[url]http://the-big-bang-theory.com/tickets[/url][/QUOTE]
Oh god, someone please, save those poor people!
Remember kids, censorship is okay if it happens to something you don't like!
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;44666787]Remember kids, censorship is okay if it happens to something you don't like![/QUOTE]
Oh no, whatever will the Chinese people do without this source of facts and unbiased world news? Oh wait, it's a stupid as all fuck entertainment program. Censorship on this level isn't even an issue for anyone except the like, two fans the show has in the world.
Had this been the Chinese government blocking news sources, then you are fully right to cry censorship, but The Big Bang Theory isn't a news source.
i never really understood the mass internet hate for big bang theory, it's not a great show but it's not the worst thing on tv, which is how everybody seems to react to it.
[QUOTE=hanswithcheese;44666862]i never really understood the mass internet hate for big bang theory, it's not a great show but it's not the worst thing on tv, which is how everybody seems to react to it.[/QUOTE]
Oh no, it really is that bad. Anyone with at least the amount of brain cells average to the common Redditor knows it too, hence the "mass internet hate."
It's pretty annoying how it perpetuates stereotypes of multiple kinds in a totally po-faced and unironic way, but there's far worse you could watch.
Bologna.
[QUOTE=draugur;44666873][B]Oh no, it really is that bad[/B]. Anyone with at least the amount of brain cells average to the common Redditor knows it too, hence the "mass internet hate."[/QUOTE]
Did the producer bang your GF or something? Calm down, it's just a show, the likes of there are much much worse.
[QUOTE=draugur;44666857]Oh no, whatever will the Chinese people do without this source of facts and unbiased world news? Oh wait, it's a stupid as all fuck entertainment program. Censorship on this level isn't even an issue for anyone except the like, two fans the show has in the world.
Had this been the Chinese government blocking news sources, then you are fully right to cry censorship, but The Big Bang Theory isn't a news source.[/QUOTE]
It's completely arbitrary censoring. They're censoring the dumbest and most mundane things, just because they can. Don't you see how that's a problem?
Censorship like this isn't just a problem with controlling your news sources, but also with controlling what you're even allowed to be entertained by.
Also, how has no one said this yet?
baninga
Come on, the pun is [I]right there[/I], yet no one took it. For shame.
this show is funny for a lot of people, if you dont find it funny, dont watch it, or does bother you so much you cant even sleep at night the fact its on air and people, yes, actually enjoy it?
take it out of your ass, come on, stop being that hateful towards anything you dont like people.
[QUOTE=draugur;44666857]Oh no, whatever will the Chinese people do without this source of facts and unbiased world news? Oh wait, it's a stupid as all fuck entertainment program. Censorship on this level isn't even an issue for anyone except the like, two fans the show has in the world.
Had this been the Chinese government blocking news sources, then you are fully right to cry censorship, but The Big Bang Theory isn't a news source.[/QUOTE]
its a popular western show wig more than a handfull of fans. Given the chinises history of censorship I can only conclude they are trying to isolate there population from the western world. As bad as the show is,censorship is always politically motivated and wrong in any situation
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