By @teamlipei

HONG KONG, April 10 (Reuters) - A Nintendo Switch video game has been pulled off China's grey market e-commerce platforms, Reuters' checks show, after Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong used the game to protest against Beijing’s rule of the Chinese territory.

Reuters: The game, "Animal Crossing: New Horizons", is a colourful social simulator in which players can decorate their own island and invite others to visit. Many players interact and simulate real-life scenarios in the game while they are stuck at home https://reut.rs/3edTuAS 

Reuters: Joshua Wong, a Hong Kong democracy activist, took his protests to the game last week and on Twitter posted a screenshot of his island decorated with a banner saying: "Free Hong Kong, revolution now."

Reuters: Joshua Wong has since shared pictures of his island showing portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping and World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom at a funeral simulation with a sign saying "Wuhan pneumonia".

Reuters: Nintendo launched console sales in China with tech giant Tencent in December, but China's players can only access multiplayer connections for games such as Animal Crossing via foreign editions available on the grey market via platforms such as Pinduoduo and Taobao.

Reuters: Since Joshua Wong's Twitter post, searches for "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" have showed no results on Pinduoduo. Some Taobao vendors are trying to circumvent the crackdown by directing potential buyers towards listings without using its title in the description.

as an aside, it seems getting Switch cartridges or physical PS4/XB1 discs have become harder lately due to the fallout from teh coronavirus pandemic. Anecdotally seeing a lot of complaints in SK about how hard it is to get Animal Crossing cartridges