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China Declares War on Internet Pornography
segphault writes "The Chinese government has shut down nearly 600 pornographic web sites, and arrested over 200 people for distributing "obscene" content. The Chinese government has also started performing covert surveillance of mobile phone text messages in order to crack down on banking fraud and prostitution organized and perpetrated with text messages. Ars Technica has the story: 'With more than 100 million Internet users, China has the second largest population of web content consumers after the United States. Although the Chinese government promotes web use for business, education, and government activity, the communist regime has committed its resources to crushing web sites that challenge government authority, or distribute content that the government considers to be detrimental to society'"
FYI, every administration of BOTH PARTIES since the 1950's has done this, it has been challenged in court and is LEGAL.CONGRESSS has know about it as well, up until the last 10 yrs DEMOCRATS controlled COngress and could have shut it down by zeroing the NSA budget.
Spying on domestic communications between suspected enemy agents was done during every war in US History dating back to the Civil War in which Lincoln authorized Union agents to tap telegraph lines in the South.
And before you say Iraq is NOT a war, there was a joint resolution of Congress passed in late Nov 2001 that gave the President the authority to wage war on terrorists and thier allies.
Before you say Iraq is not the "terrorists", it was very clear Iraq was supporting terrorism, hell we found several training bases, Government documents of agreement with Terrorists for funding, and numerous statements from former Saddaam officals that were captured verify the findings. We have former Saddam party members who are funding the terrorists there NOW. These guys are all inter-connected.
So, you are either trying to pass disinformation and/or are just plain ignorant of the facts.
Go ahead liberal moderators..mod me down. But you can't deny the facts.
Marriage licenses are harmful. The blood tests to get one are a throwback from eugenics. Then there's the whole stupidity of the government conferring privileges to married couples.