#Newspaper
Apple closes Chinese App Store loophole, causing thousands of games to be removed
//Apple will start removing thousands of games from its Chinese App Store in July as a result of a policy that requires all paid games or games with in-app purchases to be licensed by Chinese regulators
// The action marks the end of a loophole that allowed developers to sell games on the platform while they were awaiting approval.
//The measures are expected to impact at least one-third of the reportedly 60,000 games currently listed on Apple’s Chinese App Store that are either paid or feature in-app purchases and which currently lack a license. For some game developers, that could mean losing all revenue from Apple’s second-largest app market.
//major Android app stores have enforced the requirement to have a license prior to publication in China since 2016. However, the situation with Android app stores in China is different to iOS since these are run by local players like Tencent, Oppo, and Huawei.
// Google does not offer its Google Play Store in China.
//The news of the removals comes in the same month that Apple removed a pair of podcasting apps from its Chinese App Store at the request of the Chinese government.
Full Article: The Verge, (22-Jun)
#Apple #IOS #games #Android #license #Censorship #Kowtow #Tencent #Oppo #Huawei
Apple closes Chinese App Store loophole, causing thousands of games to be removed
//Apple will start removing thousands of games from its Chinese App Store in July as a result of a policy that requires all paid games or games with in-app purchases to be licensed by Chinese regulators
// The action marks the end of a loophole that allowed developers to sell games on the platform while they were awaiting approval.
//The measures are expected to impact at least one-third of the reportedly 60,000 games currently listed on Apple’s Chinese App Store that are either paid or feature in-app purchases and which currently lack a license. For some game developers, that could mean losing all revenue from Apple’s second-largest app market.
//major Android app stores have enforced the requirement to have a license prior to publication in China since 2016. However, the situation with Android app stores in China is different to iOS since these are run by local players like Tencent, Oppo, and Huawei.
// Google does not offer its Google Play Store in China.
//The news of the removals comes in the same month that Apple removed a pair of podcasting apps from its Chinese App Store at the request of the Chinese government.
Full Article: The Verge, (22-Jun)
#Apple #IOS #games #Android #license #Censorship #Kowtow #Tencent #Oppo #Huawei
The Verge
Apple closes Chinese App Store loophole, causing thousands of games to be removed
Impacting as many as 20,000 games.
#HKNEA
HK News Executives' Association Expresses No Objection and Asks Police to Provide Details of the Media Registration System
Formed by a group of senior management representatives in the media industry, the Hong Kong News Executives' Association (#NEA) expressed "strong concern" over the Police’s unilateral amendment of the definition of “media representatives” in the Police General Orders.
The police's amendment will limit media representatives to only those registered in the Government News & Media Information System (#GNMIS), or those holding identity proof issued by the "renown and recognised non-local press agencies, newspapers, magazines, TV stations and radio stations", according to the police's letter issued on September 22, 2020.
Over 48 online news outlets and 8 press unions, including Hong Kong Journalists Association (#HKJA) and Hong Kong Press Photographers Association (#HKPPA) had issued joint statements and demanded the withdrawal of the amendment.
However, the News Executives Association asked the Hong Kong Police Force to provide details of the new registration system in order to ease media concern, although it also stated that press freedom should not be curbed.
[Editor’s note:
Established in 1986, the Hong Kong News Executives' Association (http://www.nea.org.hk/eng/html) was formed by news executives of Hong Kong's major media organizations, including chief editors, deputy chief editors, news editors and deputy news editors.
The Association's incumbent chairlady is Cheung Sou-wen, who is Deputy Director of the News and Public Affairs Division of the Commercial Radio. Tammy Tam Wai-yee, Editor-in-Chief of South China Morning Post is the Association's vice-chair.
Claiming a membership of 100 media executives, the Association wrote on its website its mandate to "safeguard and promote freedom of the press" among others.]
Source: Stand News #Sept22
#PoliceState #PressFreedom #License
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Joint Statement by Over 48 Online News Outlets, Sept 22, 2020: "We Will Keep Reporting: A Petition Against Police-determined Media Whitelists"
https://www.facebook.com/2406628919558580/posts/2793962724158529/
8 Press Associations and Unions in Hong Kong Call On HK Police to Withdraw Unilateral Revision of "Media Representative"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25450
HK News Executives' Association Expresses No Objection and Asks Police to Provide Details of the Media Registration System
Formed by a group of senior management representatives in the media industry, the Hong Kong News Executives' Association (#NEA) expressed "strong concern" over the Police’s unilateral amendment of the definition of “media representatives” in the Police General Orders.
The police's amendment will limit media representatives to only those registered in the Government News & Media Information System (#GNMIS), or those holding identity proof issued by the "renown and recognised non-local press agencies, newspapers, magazines, TV stations and radio stations", according to the police's letter issued on September 22, 2020.
Over 48 online news outlets and 8 press unions, including Hong Kong Journalists Association (#HKJA) and Hong Kong Press Photographers Association (#HKPPA) had issued joint statements and demanded the withdrawal of the amendment.
However, the News Executives Association asked the Hong Kong Police Force to provide details of the new registration system in order to ease media concern, although it also stated that press freedom should not be curbed.
[Editor’s note:
Established in 1986, the Hong Kong News Executives' Association (http://www.nea.org.hk/eng/html) was formed by news executives of Hong Kong's major media organizations, including chief editors, deputy chief editors, news editors and deputy news editors.
The Association's incumbent chairlady is Cheung Sou-wen, who is Deputy Director of the News and Public Affairs Division of the Commercial Radio. Tammy Tam Wai-yee, Editor-in-Chief of South China Morning Post is the Association's vice-chair.
Claiming a membership of 100 media executives, the Association wrote on its website its mandate to "safeguard and promote freedom of the press" among others.]
Source: Stand News #Sept22
#PoliceState #PressFreedom #License
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Joint Statement by Over 48 Online News Outlets, Sept 22, 2020: "We Will Keep Reporting: A Petition Against Police-determined Media Whitelists"
https://www.facebook.com/2406628919558580/posts/2793962724158529/
8 Press Associations and Unions in Hong Kong Call On HK Police to Withdraw Unilateral Revision of "Media Representative"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25450
UK Revokes a China's Media CGTN Broadcasting license and Beijing Rebuts BBC as "Fake News”
China Global Television Network (CGTN), a subsidiary of China’s state-owned China Central Television, has been repeatedly questioned as biased. The Office of Communications (Ofcom) in the UK announced to revoke the local broadcasting license of CGTN today. On the other hand, the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry criticized a BBC report from last month as fake news linking politics to the pandemic and asked for apologies.
Ofcom confirmed on Thursday after the investigation that Star China Media owned the broadcasting license of CGTN. However, this company has no right to control the editorial content of this station. Therefore, it does not meet the legal requirements for the license.
CGTN once requested to transfer the broadcasting license to a company called China Global Television Network Corporation. However, as the “important information” for the application is missing and the company are ultimately controlled by CCP, Ofcom refused the request for license transfer. Ofcom emphasized that they have already given enough chance to CGTN, but they still failed to comply with the law, so they decided to revoke its license.
Source: Stand News #Feb04
https://bit.ly/2OS5wIf
#China #Beijing #CGTN #CCTV #England #Britain #UK #BroadcastingLicense #BBC #FakeNews #CCP #Ofcom #License
China Global Television Network (CGTN), a subsidiary of China’s state-owned China Central Television, has been repeatedly questioned as biased. The Office of Communications (Ofcom) in the UK announced to revoke the local broadcasting license of CGTN today. On the other hand, the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry criticized a BBC report from last month as fake news linking politics to the pandemic and asked for apologies.
Ofcom confirmed on Thursday after the investigation that Star China Media owned the broadcasting license of CGTN. However, this company has no right to control the editorial content of this station. Therefore, it does not meet the legal requirements for the license.
CGTN once requested to transfer the broadcasting license to a company called China Global Television Network Corporation. However, as the “important information” for the application is missing and the company are ultimately controlled by CCP, Ofcom refused the request for license transfer. Ofcom emphasized that they have already given enough chance to CGTN, but they still failed to comply with the law, so they decided to revoke its license.
Source: Stand News #Feb04
https://bit.ly/2OS5wIf
#China #Beijing #CGTN #CCTV #England #Britain #UK #BroadcastingLicense #BBC #FakeNews #CCP #Ofcom #License
#FirstHand #Jun10
Hong Kong Authorities Intervene Protest Exhibition Organized by Local Youth
#LocalYouthWill is a pro-democracy concern group recently established. They are currently running their inaugural event in form of an exhibition from June 9 to June 21, 2021.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30047
However, just one day after the event has started, the authorities intervened by sending 6 to 7 officers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (#FEHD) to the venue. Despite that the exhibition is held as a private event that requires advanced booking, the authorities claimed that the group lacks the "license" for "places of public entertainment".
Law Tsz-wai, the convenor of the group Local Youth Will said they had expected that the authorities would try to interfere and they would never give in.
#PoliceState #EntertainmentVenue #License
#NeverGiveUp #Exhibition #HongKongYouth
Hong Kong Authorities Intervene Protest Exhibition Organized by Local Youth
#LocalYouthWill is a pro-democracy concern group recently established. They are currently running their inaugural event in form of an exhibition from June 9 to June 21, 2021.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30047
However, just one day after the event has started, the authorities intervened by sending 6 to 7 officers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (#FEHD) to the venue. Despite that the exhibition is held as a private event that requires advanced booking, the authorities claimed that the group lacks the "license" for "places of public entertainment".
Law Tsz-wai, the convenor of the group Local Youth Will said they had expected that the authorities would try to interfere and they would never give in.
#PoliceState #EntertainmentVenue #License
#NeverGiveUp #Exhibition #HongKongYouth