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China Bans Horror Movies
KublaiKhan writes "According to an article on Reuters, the Chinese censors have decided that horror movies are verboten. 'Offending content included "wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror," the administration said. This is apparently a sort of Chinese version of the Jack Thompson effect, as the "mental health of adolescents" is cited as one of the reasons for the ban. Presumably, this ban — much like the spitting ban — is intended to improve China's image in the rest of the world before the Olympics open; but given the Streisand effect, would this ban perhaps unintentionally spur a surge of horror movie popularity in China?" Blizzard has had trouble with skeletons in World of Warcraft , and I imagine this decision stems from similar objections.
These guys are the next world power. America: you had a good run, but in the end it was more about SUVs and extra fries than liberty and democracy. Just think, we'll all be choking on this "harmony" and "what's good for society is good for you" shit for the next 100 years. Not something to look forward to.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
It has been shown that watching porn will make people more likely to allow another person to be hurt. Basically if you shown porn to a group and then run the Milgram experiment the subjects are even less likely to step in while another person is getting shocked. So if watch porn is actually damaging to our ability to be decent to those around us how can horror be better? If something makes causes widespread brain damage in society do we as a society want to allow it? We have "freedom of speach" but we don't have freedom of drugs because "its bad for us." Dictatorship allows for unpopular decisions to be made. A enlightened democracy might archive the same end but remember most Americans are fuck wits. Fuck wits who are stupid enough to borrow money at 23.5% interest rates to buy plastic shit made in China using oil and then bitch about expensive gas. We as a society, oh wait no... that is, an unelected body created by constitutionally dubious administrative law decides what we can and cannot see what's the difference between the FCC and the Chinese decision? Nothing, nothing at all.
American refers to anyone from the America continent, North American refers to USA/Mexico/Canada people.
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