China Cracks The Whip On Porn
Posted by: Ami Angelowicz
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6:45AM, Tuesday June 30th 2009
Does anyone else thinks it’s crazy that China has gone apes**t on the porn industry? Yes, porn has been illegal in China since 1949, and there were big old crackdowns on “spiritual pollution” in the 1980s. But recently, the government decided to really get down and dirty with the industry. In 2002, they passed a law whereby censors can look at normal folks’ emails and websites to make sure there was no questionable content involved. Then in 2005, the government locked up Chen Hui, the creator of China’s biggest porn site, and sentenced him to life in prison. In May, the government shut down Love Land, a sex-themed amusement park, before it even opened. Last week, the government started blocking Google on some computers because, well, it’s obviously the portal to sin. Starting on Wednesday, every single computer sold in China will automatically have software installed to keep the owner from surfing for or downloading porn.
The worst part of this whole thing is that the law against porn is totally vague, calling for the eradication of all “vulgar” materials—a we’ll-know-it-when-we-see-it attitude. As in, nudity at a college performance is fine but an erotic film is not, depending on the mood of the official doing the inspecting. Subjective a little, Chinese government? [Slate]
I don’t have a strong stance on porn personally—if anything I find it to be harmless and amusing—but I am a huge supporter of personal freedoms, and freedom of sex is one of my faves. China—stop jerking off (not to any “vulgar” materials of course) and leave people to their porn in peace.
What do you think? Is China taking it too far?
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writergirl
wrote on June 30 2009 @ 10:33 am: [report]
//The worst part of this whole thing is that the law against porn is totally vague, calling for the eradication of all “vulgar” materials—a we’ll-know-it-when-we-see-it attitude. As in, nudity at a college performance is fine but an erotic film is not, depending on the mood of the official doing the inspecting. Subjective a little, Chinese government? [Slate]//
Well…duh….they are a communist country. Not a democracy so this isn’t out of line at all. For their government. They don’t have to give a reason, either.
Probably they are peeved because they couldn’t get a good way to set up a bootleg porn industry as they bootleg/steal everything else.
mlyway
wrote on June 30 2009 @ 11:17 am: [report]
When I was in Shanghai this past summer, I saw a museum called something like the Sexual Revolution of China, but basically it was about how the younger generation is pushing towards a more sexual society. It seemed quite interesting but I didn’t have time to visit it. But everytime I went on the Internet, it was not uncommon to see a random black space where an obvious advertising spot would be. Or sometimes there would be black spaces covering up links, etc. It typically only happened when I was on American websites, particularly the email sites.
But the problem is with China still being communist, although they have loosened up a bit, a porn industry (if ever allowed) would be very subjective to women, and there would be even more human trafficking that would go on. There would have to be major changes in the government.