[CN] Temp Closure

[Jinc]

I lived in Shanghai for a few months of my life. While over there, it was really apparent that the Government in quite happy to stick thier noses into internet services and shut them down without warning. There are plently of websites and forums which are blocked completely, for everyone.
As farfetched as it sounds, my guess is that Habbo was seen as another way for intelligence about the country to be leaked out. Most chatrooms over there are shut down anyway.. unless they can only be used internally, and not internationally.

[Bryan84]

So serious?! Thru Habbo, Terroist?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Communism is all about keeping secrets and staying in power, the USSR was just like China.

[Alkaz]

Oooooer
wonder what will happen to all the furniture if it gets closed for ever

[Stephen]

Maybe we could send in an email to the chinese habbo asking if they can 'communicate' with habbo uk and to get uk to get a list of all the furni which was in the hotel and give it to me?

[RICHe]

maybe, they might set up a claim your furniture contact form to claim your furniture to move it to another hotel, but it probs wont happen ;-]

even if they did, chinese habbos wont be able to access, as they probs will have all habbo hotels urls blocked over there due to that law thingy.

[Immenseman]

Why wa sit actually closed or doesn't anybody know yet?

[-:Undertaker:-]

The clever thing for Habbo to do would be to not delete the Hotel, change it into a Indian Hotel or a South African Hotel, that would mean the Hotel would be more established with Furniture and so on.

[iJoe]

who own it then if sulake dont

(read page 2 i think someone said it, cant quote)

[Sammeth.]

Chinese Government are big on internet censorship. They even got google to censor some searches. Its a communist country, what do you expect?