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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welcome to china

[wan9xu]

where government officials can openly keep harems but citizens can't even watch porn.

Re:welcome to china

[couchslug]

I find it odd that the ChiCom government should CARE about porn.

Any insights on that one?

Let the citizens fap in peace and they won't rebel, while profiteering from said fappage could enrich the oligarchy.

Re:There is no left or right

[MBGMorden]

Not that a bit of violence, sex and obscenity isn't good, but it is good to create legal and social forces to encourage other, more difficult things to be tried.

Why do we as a people need legal or social "forces" to change what we want to see? If the world's culture wants to be about tits and explosions, then it's not up to some pompous prude in an office to dictate that this is somehow "wrong". Let people do what they darned well please.