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The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn

Posted by kdawson on from the regarding-babies-and-bathwater dept.

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."

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  1. Anyone else read that as by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Chinese Route to Web of Free Porn?

    1. Re:Anyone else read that as by D'Sphitz · · Score: 5, Funny

      haha you said nigger. woo hoo for you. tee hee its so shocking, it's like we're all sitting here going "oh no he dint" and you're like "oh yes I did, I said it, nigger". brilliant, original, edgy, shocking, way to buck society man.

  2. Re:Hum? by OrangeTide · · Score: 4, Funny

    I only use the internet to spread dissonant lies about my government and to look at porn.

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  3. Heh by DrugCheese · · Score: 5, Funny

    Might as well remove all the salt in the ocean while they're at it.

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    *DrugCheese rants*
  4. Fresh start by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fresh start today. Hundreds of fresh young....

    never mind

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  5. Correlation /= Causation by Nebulious · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a terrible mistake on the Chinese government's part. Just because every ruling party member likely looked at pornography as a child and became terrible people does not mean that every person who sees pornography in their childhood will grow up to be just as cold, calculating, and authoritarian.

  6. im gonna have to quate the good dr cox by Ryanrule · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be 1 website left and it would be called "Bring Back The Porn"