China censored Google's AlphaGo match against world's best Go player
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#2QJT1)
Government barred broadcasters and online publishers from livestreaming game that saw China's Ke Jie narrowly beaten
DeepMind's board game-playing AI, AlphaGo, may well have won its first game against the Go world number one, Ke Jie, from China - but but most Chinese viewers could not watch the match live.
The Chinese government had issued a censorship notice to broadcasters and online publishers, warning them against livestreaming Tuesday's game, according to China Digital Times, a site that regularly posts such notices in the name of transparency.
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