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Genshin Impact Is Censoring Words Like Taiwan And Hong Kong

The chat feature in Breath of the Wild-style gacha game Genshin Impact has been found to censor a variety of words, including references to places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet.

One poster in a thread created earlier today said a bug was causing Tibet to be censored, while others have noted that more innocuous-seeming words like words and enemies are also getting the asterisk treatment.

As Genshin Impact developer miHoYo is based out of China, many see this as part of the governments ongoing efforts to prevent discussion about topics it considers harmful politically.

According to a report shared by game industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, Chinese regulatory practices prohibit anything that threatens Chinas national unity, sovereignty, or territorial integrity.

While its clear that the Chinese government is authoritarian to its core, these policies have also given rise to a growing movement in the gaming community that uses such incidents as cover for racism and Sinophobia. Genshin Impact may just be a victim of an overaggressive chat filter, but as weve learned time and time again, China is more than happy to restrict free speech wherever it deems necessary.

You also missed the part where two popular Hololive VTubers names were censored in the game as well just because they had the audacity to mention Taiwan as a country when discussing their Youtube viewership stats.

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