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      Esports.....the world of digital competition is slowly but surely gaining momentum here in the U.S.A. but how does the rest of the world see it? Thats what we are here to talk about today my friends. Esports is still viewed by many as a waste of time, not real sports, or just a hobby. We are going to talk about some examples of how countries around the world react to and treat the world of Esports. South Korea is probably one of the best examples of how a country can positively represent Esports. From government sponsored programs to full on studies in universities. South Korea, unsurprisingly, has some of the best Esports players in the industry. The PC game Starcraft 2 is considered the countries national sport, a game of which i personally enjoy and even captained on an esports team myself. As direct dichotomy to South Korea there is the way Germany looks at Esports. Germany actively refers to it as Egaming to further devalue it as not a sport as well as the...

     There are many countries throughout the world where the media is very directly controlled by the government and this is well documented. Some of these countries include North Korea, China, Eritrea, and Russia to name just a few. What about the countries that are not as obvious about their censorship? Is  using the media as a weapon against the populace not the same? Lets talk about the Authoritarian Theory of Mass Communication and its concepts. So the basic jist of the whole thing is that the media is subservient to the state as the state is more important than the individual which is true in a dictatorship, but also somewhat true even in democratic governments. Now not to veer to far into conspiracy theory land of course, but the U.S. preaches about its freedom of speech but yet there is quite a lot of censorship to go around. Based on the fact that news outlets have a political skew is one such example, this political skew means that any news will b...