China Launches War On Porn
 

BEIJING - China has launched a "people's war" against pornography on the Internet, giving websites a deadline until September to rid themselves of indecent content, state media said.

Officials have so far identified 500 websites across China that carry pornographic pictures and film clips, the China Daily reported.

Zhou Yongkang, the minister of public security, has vowed to crack down on the activities and severely punish those found guilty of violating the law, according to the paper.

President Hu Jintao has gone one step further, saying a "people's war" must be waged against pornography on the Internet.

It appears the Chinese have answered their president's call, filing a total of 22,000 complaints on a dedicated government website set up to make it easier for the public to report online wrongdoing.

The vast majority of these complaints -- 95 percent -- have been about websites with pornographic content.

Hundreds of websites, including the most influential ones, publish "indecent or even pornographic content" to attract users, the Xinhua news agency reported, without giving examples.

If they have not erased their pornographic content by September, they will lose their license to publish news stories, Xinhua said.

The crackdown on Internet porn reflects two top concerns of the Chinese leadership, about the ethical standards of the young and about the subversive potential of the Internet.

Since this spring, Chinese top leaders have called for greater efforts to raise the morals of the nation's adolescents in remarks reminiscent of previous campaigns against "spiritual pollution."

At the same time, they have imposed measure after measure to seek to control the Internet, a nearly impossible task with 80 million registered users.

State media reported last month that the government had suspended the registration of new Internet cafes, following a three-month sweep in which it closed 16,000 existing ones.

Maybe Asscrust can get a job over there after we kick his ass out in November. :thumbsup

Wow, that's fucked up. What's life without porn.

Thank god Im not there

Not sure, but I bet it's a lot like living in Salt Lake City.

a soap opera?

I mean, think about soap operas.. they have sex all the time, full on romance and stuff, but you never see it. It just starts to get heavy and then next thing you know they're lying there having a cigarette and talking about how to kill the woman's brother's room mate's uncle's cousin's step mother's niece's school teacher.

I hate it when that happens.

not totally unexpected...china being an old empire

What's Salt Lake City like? You mean the Donnie and Marie crowd?

Don't let that fool you. Underneath the Mormons are just like everyone else.

imagine all the money that could be made in China...

Maybe this will stop a few of those Chinese hotlink boards.

perfect
maybe I dont have to send that crap traffic to a popup hell no more :)

what religion are these government officials again?:1orglaugh

Something tells me I wouldn't want ending up in a "chinese" communist prison.

In the end PORN wins. It always does :glugglug

:thumbsup

neo conservative?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I have an account with Verio and every time I call them I get someone in Utah.

1st thing they ask is my domain name.:Graucho So I give them my account number.

Hell yeah, let Bush lend Ashhahahahaha to chinese right now :)

wrong, but not an unusual guess for your kind. :thumbsup

They'd have to block internet traffic in and out of the country to make a difference in the amount of porn their people can see and even then would be so many ways around that.

What all countries need is a government controlled ISP where anyone who wants to digest only what the government wants them to see can sign up free. Then they can leave everyone else using regular ISPs alone.

America's "patriot" ISP could be called the GWW:thumbsup

pfft mormon girls are the biggest whores out there :2 cents:

http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/fuckrepublicans.jpg

Nothing surprising, they were pretty much blocking pron anyways. Just taking it to the next level. :winkwink:

:1orglaugh

what's going to be really funny is the smile on your face and the smart-ass attitude while you're sitting in your cell telling the other cons how your beloved leader is doing a great job running the country.
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I don't have ten underaged wives. :2 cents:

Buddhists, Muslims & Christians. (oh my)

funny to see them do this, as there's no way they can control or stop it.

China and Iraq are the last 2 places I'd ever live.

The Chinese government is officially atheist.


But, but, but, but, but, but hang on the Chinese goverment is left wing - I thought only neocons cracked down on porn........

Awesome! Now they have an excuse to invade other countries because there is porn that's threathening the free world! :thumbsup

Forgetting North Korea?

:1orglaugh

Bush supporters and the communists have a lot more in common than either will admit.

Mormon girls are the horniest on the planet. Something about that public repression, private fuck like rabbits thing.

I have a buddy who grew up here in Vegas(not known for a high virgin population), who used to drive up to St George Utah on the weekends to cruise chicks because it was so easy.


On the Chinese porn... can you imagine the Chinese Govt complaining about all the US Porn sites corrupting their citizens and trying to bypass their filters. It's karma for all the Chinese spam we get hit with. :1orglaugh