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The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn
An anonymous reader writes "Despite repeated 'for the children' campaigns, the Western Web as a whole has provided little or no isolation of pornography. This is why the Chinese are now attempting to march to a place where no country has been before: a Web without porn. Recent regulations have included closing down 'vulgar' mobile sites, disconnecting 'obscene' servers, and restricting domain registrations. Yet the breaking news for Monday is that China is planning to enforce a whitelist on foreign domains: in particular, any e-commerce will have to register locally and obey Chinese law before they get whitelisted. Domains will otherwise be 'irresolvable' to Chinese Internet users. Meanwhile, the government is promoting this campaign heavily, calling it a 'fresh start.' It seems the Chinese may have to do without the Internet, before they can rid it of porn."
The Soviets had a fetish for persecuting gay people. Now the Red Chinese have developed a fetish for stopping porn. Were the Soviet-Chinese border wars of the 1960s actually conflicts over gay porn?
It seems like it would be easier to let people have their perceived perversions within a communist framework than to go all-out against yet another thing. I understand that it's not the nature of totalitarian regimes to let any erratic behavior slide, but still . . . It's just weird that every single communist regime ever has had it in for some type of sexual hang-up.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
This rationale is a lie, of course. China couches their real aim in a moral sleeve. Their real aim is nothing more than protecting their fascist government from the revolution that's coming, to keep the ruling party in power and shield it from criticism and challenge.
It's the same lie that Hugo Chavez spoke recently in creating his state police designed to conduct a "war on crime" when the simple fact is that it simply ends up creating a secret police that answers to Chavez alone and will end up reinforcing his power.
The same lie that Obama spoke about insuring millions and reducing the deficit by taking over health care. Never ends with these politicians.
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