Chinese agencies fight for control of ‘World of Warcraft’ online game (San Jose Mercury News)(Warcraft News)
BEIJING — Chinese regulators are fighting over the right to supervise “World of Warcraft,” a popular online game, in a bizarre battle that has thrust bureaucratic rivalry for control of the Internet into the open. Its rival, the Ministry of Culture’s cultural products department, fired back that it was the regulator of online games and said the Web site’s paperwork was in order. The squabble has given the Chinese public a rare glimpse into the struggles between bureaucrats over who gets to regulate the Internet and other promising new industries and reap the added influence and revenues that can bring. China has the world’s biggest online population, with 338 million Internet users at the end of June — a bigger group than the whole U. read more
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