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LOL! China bans software due to a simple dropdown list but is completely outraged over the Huawei ban due to security concerns.
September 8, 2020
The widespread use of Scratch in China's public school system alarmed Chinese authorities.
China's enthusiasm for teaching children to code is facing a new roadblock as organizations and students can no longer access the website of Scratch, the programming language developed at the MIT Media Lab.
An organization that monitors Internet censorship in China shows that the website was 100% blocked as early as August 20.
Nearly 60 million children around the world have used Scratch's visual programming language to make games, animations, stories, and the like. That includes students in China, where 5.65% or 3 million of Scratch's registered users are based.
Projects on Scratch contain "a great deal of humiliating, fake, and libelous content about China," including placing Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan in a dropdown list of "countries," a state-run news outlet reported on August 21.

China Bans Scratch, MIT's Programming Language for Kids
Organizations and students in China can no longer access the website of Scratch, the programming language developed at the MIT Media Lab.
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September 8, 2020
The widespread use of Scratch in China's public school system alarmed Chinese authorities.
China's enthusiasm for teaching children to code is facing a new roadblock as organizations and students can no longer access the website of Scratch, the programming language developed at the MIT Media Lab.
An organization that monitors Internet censorship in China shows that the website was 100% blocked as early as August 20.
Nearly 60 million children around the world have used Scratch's visual programming language to make games, animations, stories, and the like. That includes students in China, where 5.65% or 3 million of Scratch's registered users are based.
Projects on Scratch contain "a great deal of humiliating, fake, and libelous content about China," including placing Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan in a dropdown list of "countries," a state-run news outlet reported on August 21.