Time Travel no longer allowed in China

http://tinyurl.com/69nljx4

edited 12th Apr '11 3:37:51 PM by occono

Christ that was close.

Also broken link.

edited 12th Apr '11 3:36:49 PM by TheDeadMansLife

Page not found.

And well, damn...

http://tinyurl.com/69nljx4

Sorry I keep forgetting

Here you go.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/time-travel-no-longer-allowed-in-china,54490/

http://www.avclub.com/search/?submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search&q=time+travel

Second result.

edited 12th Apr '11 3:38:39 PM by TheDeadMansLife

Should we add time travel to the Banned in China page?

This... is amusing.

I guess we'll see. Some of their decisions are overturned by the politiburo when they feel it goes too far. We can only hope! I can't say any of the tv shows recently with the time travel plots were any good but alas, that's how tv usually is anyway.

What? No actual time traveling? Whatever then. And yes, this sounds like a worthy addition.

Similar to how the US and USSR had the Space Race, it seems that the Time Race is now getting more intense. China's out, but it still is yet to be seen for whether someone else can catch up to those pesky British.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Oh China, y u so crazy?

Does this mean I can't go back to the Song dynasty?

A large part of China's political leadership still lives in the 1950's so it's not as if time travel doesn't occur in China.

I wish I could say that and mean it 'cause then I could pretend that China won't be the majority shareholder of both Europe and the US by the end of my life 20s (I'm 22).

In reality, they're very aware of geopolitics and most other things today, and this is making life difficult for everyone else (and much easier for Chinese people because even if the government's holding them down, it seems that most of them actually have a pretty decent standard of living, and it's improving constantly).

That's going to hurt their governments reputation more than have any other tangible effect. Not that you can hurt it much more.

I do hate that website though, they are so fucking snobby about movies they like.

I for one, enjoyed The Ugly Truth and Hot Tub Time Machine.

edited 12th Apr '11 5:04:23 PM by Barkey

I have to ask:

Does this also count as a ban on time travel technology, or just literature?

Still less stupid than the War on Drugs.

No, actually, slightly more stupid. But only slightly.

Did they found a large group of police officers just to enforce it?

They found the hugest group ever. Blame the 50s.

For a moment, I thought this was The Onion. (Close enough, I suppose.)

edited 13th Apr '11 12:49:26 AM by feotakahari

And that, kids, is a good example about "why governments are evil".

Never give any power to anything you're not capable of unplugging at a whim.

edited 13th Apr '11 7:39:26 AM by Madrugada

And the freedom of speech people started to cry even more.

They got angry at Doc brown for saying they don't need roads. It's against the worker and all. :P

Who knows, maybe they're trying to invoke Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act, just in case?

friv·o·lous/ˈfrivələs/Adjective
1. Not having any serious purpose or value: "rules to stop frivolous lawsuits".
2. (of a person) Carefree and not serious.

Personally, I'm more worried about the fact that this literally has to do with people making history fun, or at they use that as a cover up reason. Can't help but feel this has more to do with China wanting to present their history to their people in a manner that only they get to decide (then again, I can say that for any nation, but really, because it's "frivolous"?).