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China Rewards Porn Snitches
MinimeMongo writes that the "Associated Press reports that China's police ministry on Sunday handed out rewards of up to $240 to people who reported pornographic Web sites in a campaign to stamp out online smut...The online crackdown is part of a sweeping official morality campaign launched this year on orders from communist leaders."
Step 1. Make porn site (and cover your tracks
Step 2. Report porn site
Step 3. PROFIT!!!! and making porn
Holy manchurian candidates, batman! Perot went out like a bitch. If we'd had that lying dwarf running the country "like a business" the way he sucked his billions from the government with EDS (administering Texas Medicare, etc), the 1990s would have looked a lot like the 2000s. If a voter makes a statement in an election and the fascist wins, does anyone care? Don't waste your time on empty statements that make you feel better when you cast the ballot, but let someone else's winner make you feel worse for the next four years. Or vote for me, Doc Ruby - only I can set you free :P.
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.. porn pays you.
Wow, what a fat lot you know about China and the CCP. I think what you say is mostly bullshit. Morality is actually important to most Chinese, though I suspect that as an American you are not able to recognise it as such; the way you jeer at the notion suggests that you don't really have much idea about what morality is.
Let me explain, then - morality to most people has little to do with religion, since most people in the world aren't very religious. Instead it is all about such things as honesty, reliability and caring about others. I sometimes get the feeling that this is different in America, since Americans so often seem to assume that morality more or less equals religion, particularly Christianity. In my opinion this is one of the most disturbing aspects of American culture. Look at a person like Bush - apparently his thinking has been something like this:
Get baptised or 'born again' or whatever is the cheap and easy way. Now you're a good person - a 'Christian' full of the Holy Ghost. Since you're now God's Child, he will provide for you and give all good things, eg. money. In fact you now have a right to get rich - this is called 'Faith'. The more you demand to get rich, the more Faith you have. And the more Faith, the better your morality, that goes without saying, right?
As I said, I sometimes get the feeling that all you guys have lost the plot when it comes to the basic things like simple, plain morality. It is actually possible to be a non-Christian and higly moral. You can be a hedonist and highly moral, you can be a Muslem or a Communist and highly moral; whether you can be a Christian and highly moral is another question, which I can't answer, since I'm not one.
However, you're right when you say 'Never underestimate the will of the people in stifling themselves'. Most people are not interested in lofty nonsense about 'freedom', they just want a daily life that works without too many problems; and I think that is quite good. And when it comes to pornography I don't think freedom has much to do with it. Porn, for those who want it, is simply either a way to lure money out of fools, or something to stimulate your fantasy when you masturbate. For those of who don't want it, it's simply a load of crap.
BTW, if you want to impress everybody with your command of the Chinese language, perhaps you ought to learn it first. 'Goodbye' (which is what you seem to try to say) is not 'zai zhen', but 'zaijian', at least in pinyin notation.
And I'm supposed to care about the conditions of junkies and whores? They *chose* to be junkies and whores, much the same way pornographers choose to be pornographers. If they are treated like crap, it's their own damn fault for getting into the business. Maybe they should have chosen a real job instead of (quite literally) f*cking around.