➤Heavy Censorship: Fortnite and Yahoo Leave China 🕹

Two big tech companies made very similar decisions about their business in China at roughly the same time. While Epic Games announced that Fortnite will be pulled from Chinato the Yahoo also revealed that it had left the Asian country.

Both companies claimed that the decisions were made due to the strong censorship that exists in China. Recently, with the idea of having more control over the economy, the government adopted new rules that greatly impacted the area of technology, which also includes video games. Now, the Chinese government has also limited, to just three hours a week, the playing time of under 18s.

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Yahoo started its activities in China in 1999, when it launched its search engine in the country. However, since 2013 the company began to reduce its messaging service in the Asian country, now finally announcing its withdrawal.

In turn, Epic Games was dissatisfied and directly affected by the new measures involving electronic games in the country. After China began requiring those under 18 to use an ID card to register for online games, with the intention of cutting down on hours of play, industry companies saw the plummeting profit considerably, as well as stocks also started to fall.

even having the Tencent, a Chinese giant, among its shareholders, Epic Games decided to respond to the measures as rigidly as possible. The company announced that Fortnite, its most successful title, will be discontinued in the Asian country.

"In 15 November, we will shut down the servers and users will no longer be able to connect." Epic Games stated.

It is worth remembering that a month ago, the LinkedIn, Microsoft's professional social network, also left China.