Remember how awhile ago, I said
China scares me? Well, they just gave me another reason to fear the People's Republic.
China is anti-porn! Wednesday,
Reuters reported that President Hu Jintao shut down a website selling porn and arrested 33 people. Last year alone 44,000 websites were shut down and 868 people arrested.
The story printed by the state media, (Fox News China) said President Jintao's anti-porn initiative or what they call "crackdown on online pornography and "unhealthy" Web content" was launched because it poses a threat to "social stability."
"China employs tens of thousands of human Internet censors and a vast network of filters to control online information.
China last month said it would crack down on video-sharing Web sites, and allow only state-controlled sites to post video content online in new restrictions effective from January 31."
I guess I posted this because it the rationality behind it didn't make sense to me. I mean, look at Japan. They have TONS of porn (weird porn and used teenage panties in vending machines on sidewalks) and they are probably the most socially stable country on earth. On top of that they're only busting online porn—so Chinese men and women who want to get themselves some pr0n have to travel down to the local video store to stock up.
Oh well, I guess they never were ones for efficiency.
1 comment:
Sounds like a fix-it job for Molly!
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