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(Thank you to Dlangar, for catching my mistake!)
China's at it again. It isn't enough that they enacted anti-addiction laws to prevent people from overdosing on MMORPGs. Or that they made a few changes to censor World of Warcraft (guys, black blood is still blood, isn't it?).
Now if you play Chinese MMO King of the World, you can forget about pretending to be the opposite gender when you play online games. The new Gender Identification System uses a webcam to scan your face and determine your gender. This is supposedly intended to make women in MMOs feel more respected.
It also makes them easier targets. If a man starts to hit on a female in an online game, saying you have a boyfriend, are married, or don't go that way might not be much of a deterrent (in fact, that last one would probably only encourage further harassment). But say you're a man, and you can bet that the subject will be immediately dropped.
Or maybe this is the response to so many relationships that have been springing up from online interactions. Whatever the reasoning is, this Gender Recognition System better be good. Imagine being told by a machine that you are not really a woman? This can probably be solved by scanning something else... but I'm sure no one wants to go there.
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