China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested

lothos writes with news that China has arrested thousands more people and shuttered 60,000 websites in an ongoing anti-pornography crackdown. "Wang Chen, director of the Information Office of the State Council, said at a news conference that some 350 million pieces of pornographic and indecent internet content were eliminated, according to the Xinhua report. The government launched a special campaign a year ago to rid the internet of pornographic and vulgar content, Xinhua reported. Overall, the campaign included 2,197 criminal cases involving 4,965 people who violated Chinese law by disseminating pornography via the internet or mobile phones, the news agency said. Of those, 58 people received prison sentences exceeding five years."

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Re:welcome to china

[couchslug]

The answers are a bit different.

The US was partially settled by violent Christian "Taliban" (Puritans) and most of its people are religious primitives at the core.

Pleasure unrationed by the emissaries of God is sinful, hence Prohibition of all sorts. The fear of unrationed pleasure is based on the desire to inflict tasty Godly domination on sinners and fap to that sweet power. It's not a matter of "social disorder", but SIN and the delectability of inflicting pain on sinners. Lots of S&M, but the superstitions of the Middle East roll that way.

The US corporate oligarchy (more enlightened and free of superstition than the religious savages) benefit greatly from booze, but free-thinking citizens who like other pleasures haven't fought hard enough to gain tolerance for them.