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."

Comments

USA: secret kill threats, wiretapping, more war.

[jbn-o]

I would have liked to see more detail as well, however I think it's not hard to find serious faults with what the US Congress does and what it tacitly agrees with by not objecting. I don't see most "congress-critters" doing anything to stop some of the most heinous behavior the US government engages in. A few recent examples include:

• killing foreigners in illegal, immoral (and increasingly unpopular and costly) wars of aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen
• stopping the US president from making death threats against Americans without due process or charges of any kind
• keeping such threats secret (to the point where Obama's DOJ doesn't want judges ruling on the legality of such action)
• and inventing new forms of government immunity aimed at allowing the US government permission to intercept all your calls (and emails and so on)

This all happened under President's Obama's watch. This all happened with overwhelmingly silent complicity of his Democratic Party Congress. Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional law and civil rights litigator, calls this wiretapping "at least as pernicious as any power asserted during the Bush/Cheney years".

That's hardly the behavior I'd expect from "fine, upstanding people".

Re:There is no left or right

[amorsen]

From the description it sounds like you mean Denmark. Here you only go to jail if you refuse the non-military service that you can pick instead of military service. And you can pay taxes to support the Lutheran church, but you get asked whether you want to and you are free to say no and not pay.

Sure the government should not be helping the church collect money, but honestly it cannot really get me riled up. It certainly has advantages for keeping the church out of politics, even if it does get a bit of politics into church.