China bans time travel for television

LumbergTech

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http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/china-bans-time-travel-for-television/?hpt=C2

"China has been cracking down on dissent of late, as the recent detainment of artist Ai Weiwei suggests.

But the latest guidance on television programming from the State Administration of Radio Film and Television in China borders on the surreal – or, rather, an attack against the surreal.

New guidelines issued on March 31 discourage plot lines that contain elements of "fantasy, time-travel, random compilations of mythical stories, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, even propagating feudal superstitions, fatalism and reincarnation, ambiguous moral lessons, and a lack of positive thinking."

Gotta love the Chinese government...You know that these guys are saying one thing and doing another just like U.S. Politicians..I can just imagine the scandal when one of their guys is caught watching Back to the Future....too funny
 

Schadenfroh

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Uh oh, someone must be mad about the latest Star Trek Movie and its "reboot" of the series.
 

ch33zw1z

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Nobody should be surprised by this...Free thinking and imagination is strongly discouraged there.
 

wuliheron

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This is just another security measure. China has been secretly doing time travel experiments since the Area 51 incident. The less people think about the possibility of time travel the less will notice when the government uses it to remain in power.
 

QuantumPion

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They didn't ban time travel. They banned the fictional depiction of alternate histories which depict life before communism as being good or the regime as bad in any way.
 
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We need measures like this. We need to stop crappy plot devices in movies, specifically in remakes or sequels of movies that did not need a remake or a sequel.
 
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wuliheron

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We need measures like this. We need to stop crappy plot devices in movies, specifically in remakes or sequals of movies that did not need a remake or a sequel.


What we need is a real time machine so we can go back and correct such mistakes.
 

Doppel

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"absurd techniques"

Definitely my favorite of all the things they banned here.
 

CanOWorms

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A lot of those seem to be banning things that could challenge the power and establishment of the state, something not uncommon in the media laws of many European nations over the last decades. An example is The Battle of Algiers, a movie banned in the UK and France for some time partly due to its anti-colonialism message.
 

blinblue

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Man, don't think Dr. Who will be showing up over there anytime soon. Pretty much violates everything on that list multiple times an episode