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China’s porn crackdown
Written By: Due-East on May 3, 2007
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| Internet censorship seems to be a hotly-debated topic when China is brought up in conversation lately, but it looks like Beijing (as in the Chinese government as a whole) has the support of the people in at least one area: the fight against online pornography. |
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| According to an article on China.org.cn, the Chinese government launched a massive program to halt the spread of internet pr0n (that’s porn, for those of you that don’t understand l33t sp33k – but don’t feel bad if you don’t, because it’s pretty lame anyway) on April 12th. And since the program’s inception, the number of calls to police to report internet pornography has increased from about 300 a day to almost 700 a day. And this is the internet we’re talking about, not the local park, so most of the people reporting are young people. The campaign seems to be working; according to the article, Beijing has shut down more than 1,400 pornographic websites and deleted more than 30,000 obscene messages since it began. Thankfully, China’s traditional values haven’t been completely destroyed (yet) by Western influence. |
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Um, what do you mean by China’s ‘traditional values’? Have you ever read ‘Jin Ping Mei’? And that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Part of China’s beautiful ‘traditional’ culture (and I don’t mean that facetiously) has always been pornography, whether written or illustrated – that’s just a fact (it’s the same with basically every other country in the world). There’s nothing wrong with it.
People need to find relief for their aching loins somewhere. Seems to me that this campaign has more to do with the Chinese government being run by a bunch of old prudes than any real desire on the part of the Chinese populace to clamp down on so-called ‘smut’.
Other than that, cool blog.