While we are still sad about the harmony of mobile games, American players on the other side of the ocean are worried that they may not be able to play Genshin in the future.
As we all know, the U.S. government has been very afraid of China's development, and has taken many actions over the years to stifle Chinese companies or products from Chinese companies, such as the previous coercion of Byte to peddle TikTok and the recent lawsuit over TikTok.
In order to make it easier to suppress China, U.S. Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner also submitted an S.686 Restrictions Act (Bill 686), which requires all U.S. citizens and businesses to use all foreign-made Internet-enabled hardware equipment, foreign computer software or Internet services, which may constitute a crime, punishable by a fine of up to $1 million and 20 years in prison.
On the surface, this bill was born to suppress Tiktok, and foreign netizens also called it "Tiktok Ban (Tiktok ban)", but in fact, the products it targets include all software and hardware devices from abroad that can be networked, which is an indiscriminate blow.
Of course, this bill restricts not only American citizens in the United States, including foreigners who come to the United States, but also Americans who are physically abroad.
Doesn't this bill sound outrageous? Imagine a scenario where four ABCD inmates are locked up in the prison, and several of them are imprisoned for different reasons. A is because of selling D, B is because of zero yuan purchase, C is because of illegal gun ownership, D is because of using WeChat to chat with relatives and friends, does it seem very outrageous?
The most raw thing is that D is still the longest sentence, because according to the laws of some local states in the United States, the sentence for trafficking D is generally 7 years, robbery is 3 to 10 years, illegal gun ownership is 3 to 7 years, and the use of foreign apps can be sentenced to up to 20 years!
And with the emergence of such unreliable bills, the Americans themselves could not sit still first. In today's era of economic globalization, many Americans are also enjoying foreign Internet cultural products, in addition to TikTok, the Chinese game company Mihayou developed "Genshin Impact" (English name Genshin Impact) is also welcomed by American young people, if the 686 bill is passed, then "Genshin" can still be played? Will thousands of players be sentenced to 20 years for playing games?
In the United States, many outrageous things have happened, and many outrageous laws have been introduced, such as the forced introduction of prohibition when there were a large number of alcoholics in the country in the last century, which led to the rise of moonshine gangs.
In order to ban alcohol, the US government also poisoned imported alcohol and poisoned a group of citizens to show the harm of drinking.
Therefore, although Bill 686 is magical from a normal person's point of view, it is theoretically unlikely to pass. But in the land of the United States, anything is possible, and American otaku players who originally did not ask about politics began to express their concerns online.
Foreign netizens have made a rigorous analysis of this, the 686 bill is undoubtedly aimed at a large number of countries outside the United States, but the main target is definitely China, and "Genshin" is an extremely popular Chinese game, Liyue in it undoubtedly has a Chinese cultural background, the 686 bill in the banned software application types also include game applications, if the United States must ban an online game product from China, then the "first to bear" is naturally "Genshin".
Moreover, the US government has long been dissatisfied with Genshin, and has repeatedly criticized the game for setting sensitive words in the game, saying that it is a violation of human rights.
Setting sensitive words is a violation of human rights, so is it a violation of human rights to completely stop playing games? It can only be said that the double standard is like this.
In fact, not only "Genshin", if the scope is expanded, the products of the fist company wholly acquired by Tencent cannot be played by Americans, including "League of Legends", "Valorant", and Tencent has also invested in Epic, so whether "Fortnite" can be played is also a big question mark.
This is the benefit of cultural export, precisely because foreigners like Chinese cultural products, there will be people protesting the suppression of relevant departments, otherwise who will stand up for Chinese enterprises? At most, come out and say "as if".
Some people also ridicule that this is the US Democratic Party suppressing Republican conservatives, just to prevent them from playing "Genshin", pure disgusting.
Although Yun Youji is still ridiculing this matter, whether it can be passed or not, the emergence of this bill also sends a very dangerous signal.
In 2001, as a result of the 911 incident, U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act, which authorized the U.S. government to secretly search private homes and businesses, confiscate property, and collect personal information in order to combat terrorism, a notorious law that led to the detention and torture of countless innocent American civilians, including many minor children.
It seems that the bill against terrorists has finally become a tool for the expansion of the power of the US government, and it is clear that the 686 bill also has this tendency, if the bill is really passed, in addition to not using Tiktok, playing "Genshin", the US government will have the power to directly monitor the user's mobile phone, computer and other personal privacy, and these acts do not have to be carried out secretly.
It is foreseeable that even if the bill is not passed, the US government's attack on Chinese companies will still not end, for their own interests, they will find various reasons to use Chinese software, if Tiktok is really cleaned up, then the next may really be the turn of "Genshin".