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China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content (reuters.com)
China has shut down or "dealt with" thousands of websites for sharing "harmful" erotic or obscene content since April, the state's office for combating pornography and illegal publications announced on Thursday. From a report on Reuters: The office said 2,500 websites were prosecuted or shut down and more than 3 million "harmful" posts were deleted in eight months up to December during a drive to "purify" the internet in China and protect youth, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The government has tightening its grip on Chinese cyberspace in recent months, in particular placing new restrictions on the fast-growing live-streaming industry. The state has a zero-tolerance approach to what it considers lewd, smutty or illegal content and has in past crackdowns removed tens of thousands of websites in a single year.
Really, it's subversive political content they want to get rid of. They eliminate pornography as a front to do that. Of course, they are reducing porn in small ways, but mostly, they can get up and thump "We're protecting the nation from smut!" while quashing dissident and unfavorable opinions. It just gives them a cover of statistics they can use to justify their increasingly invasive censorship.
They do it with child pornography and bestiality websites in America, and I'm glad. Wait a second, the FBI actually runs child porn sites as an "enforcement strategy"?!
n/t
Hopefully they shut down the IRS website. It's obscene and harmful.
And he'll copy this, too.
Except he'll make the customers pay for it.
I wonder how my life would have been different without it.
You see,THIS is why you have to be better ALL THE TIME, and you can't just go "Well, so and so is worse!". You lose ALL right to complain, because they can just ignore the hypocrisy.
Not just "Treason", either. Call it a terrorist meet-up, pirate organisation, kiddie fiddler stash or internet gambling site, and you USians will shut down whatever the hell you like.
FFS, you exported DMCA which allows corporations to do it just for "We own rights to something with the same name, shut them down". Do it three times and you can silence any voice you wish. The difference is that they don't care to export their demands and expect to get their way outside their borders, unlike the USA.
PS what you forget is that the chinese have a different culture to USians (or Westerners in general), and most of them, the majority (you DO know what that means in a democracy, right?) think this action is right and proper. Just like you with your kiddie porn (when the stuff is post-pubescent and therefore adults, just SOCIALLY still underage of consent), or communism.
Purity is such an impure word - it means repression, persecution and lack of liberty. It's been abused since time immemorial, the main tool in the ideological toolbox.
China doesn't have a first amendment, so it's not censorship. Even if it were, it's being enacted by the comms operators, which some will say makes it not matter since the first amdemnenenent only impacts the government.
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on Chinese dating sites I have had women offer me their underage daughters for sex if only I will help them get green cards. Apparently 'morality' in China means something different than it does in the USA
No, I do not need sex with children, I did not accept said offers nor would I ever. I am happy to help people move to the USA if they want to, but you can't bribe me with illicit/imoral stuff.
I don't see why we're up in arms here...
I thought it's good when Facebook and Twitter block "harmful" content... like fake news...
Donald Trump will call Gina "progressive" and "smart" as he does the same in the US
ISPs and other private entities are allowed to censor.
Pure unadulterated, fascist propaganda delivered straight to you, with not even a hint of dissent.
While we passed this on December 8th:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countering_Foreign_Propaganda_and_Disinformation_Act
Now it's time for Czar Trump to gut the Western-friendly Radio Free Europe/Asia organizations (who even uses the radio... SAD low energy RF) and America to start purifying "propaganda" and "fake news."
MAGA. Bigly.
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Reserved to all humans, not just Americans. The 1st admendment to the US constitution protects the public from congress "abridging THE freedom of speech" (emphasis mine) implying that the freedom of speech was a pre-existing right, not granted by the government. It doesn't matter if china doesn't have a constitution or a '1st amendment' all humans have the right to free speech and this is the Chinese government engaging in censorship.
NOTE TO AMERICANS: there are plenty of lawmakers here who would like to pass similar legislation to remove smut from the internet. We need to stay vigilant to ensure our rights don't disappear.
Which may be what you intend, to show the double standard.
If you're sacked, lose your job, lose your house (no money) can't feed yourself (no money) and die, in what way is this fine and dandy?
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/12/15/1853235/facebook-is-clamping-down-on-fake-news-partners-with-fact-checkers-to-flag-stories#comments
Chairman Canute's initiative, I assume?
China has an overpopulation problem. Why ever would they clamp down on pornography? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
The state has a zero-tolerance approach to what it considers lewd, smutty or illegal content ...
My experience with the Chinese internet was that porn was difficult to find. While Asian culture in general doesn't promote lust and nudity, China hasn't monetized it while Japan has.
The UK is expanding their filters to include more content based on the same 'protect the children' bu** s*it. Where do you think it's going to land next? I know I know. It's going to land right here in the United States. When they rolled out Ez Pass I knew it was bad. It was a tracking system. I opted out. I chose not to adopt it. It wasn't worth the cost of my freedom. Many others new where it was going like I did. It eventually became the norm and that's when they hit us. They eliminated the toll booths altogether and forced everybody to adopt it. Then they punished those who refuse by charging them more based on the bu** shi** argument that it was more expensive to bill people based on their license plate. I'm sorry- but no. It's 30% more expensive to put up tolls than simply pay for them with tax dollars. There is no excuse for having another more expansive taxing mechanism. And it certainly shouldn't come at the price of my freedom and privacy. I don't expect to have much privacy when I'm out and about, but I do expect that government respect my right not to be tracked everywhere I go based on things *they* forced on me (license plate) under the guise of security. You don't need a license plate on every vehicle to make an arrest. You don't even need a license plate to track a car down if people are so concerned about the risk of the theft. It's called GPS. You don't need the government to mandate license plates on every car to achieve security and I'd like to see these things eliminated rather than mandated.
The Chinese might have done it first, but then the United Kingdom adopts, and next it'll be the United States.
If you don't believe in government dominating us and you don't think there should be any laws for which there are no victims nor violence, coercion, theft or fraud then you may be a principled libertarian (libertarians at the national level are scum, no better than conservatives/republicans/democrats).
Check out the Free State Project and Shire Society which are migrations of principled libertarians to New Hampshire for the purpose of forming a freedom and liberty friendly utopia. Check out Free Keene (http://www.freekeene.com) for liberty-news in NH.
Real or principled libertarians don't demand boarder guards (boarder guards = big government and regulation). Real libertarians don't believe in drivers licenses, vehicular registration, license plates, social security, welfare, government indoctrination programs (ie public schools), wars, the police state, or regulation of what two people do in their own home (marriage, be it gay marriage or polygamy). We don't believe in the government having any authority to decide what we can put in our bodies (drugs) or if / how we can do business (licenses are often nothing more than a tax and/or means of limiting competition, we can develop better systems to protect consumers via eBay-like review systems of yesteryear and similar). We don't need government dictating who can and can not driver. We do not need government instituted security (police). There are other means of protecting oneself. There are commercial security firms providing patrolling services in places where governments have failed (Detroit) and apps that'll enable users to call upon friends, family, and neighbours for help in an emergency and good Samaritans in close proximity. We don't believe in tracking, restricting, regulating, or banning guns or other weapons. We don't believe in tax-heavy systems, war, or government enforced socialism (we do tend to be very pro-charity- but that's a choice we each have to make individually, otherwise it's theft, and we are against wealth redistribution programs of all kinds, be it corporate, for bailing out banks/car manufacturers or individuals). We simply want to be free of government interference and put responsibility for oneself back into the hands of the people and we want to give people the financial means back to do just that. If you eliminated all taxes in all forms you'd end up with twice as much money. There would be plenty of ways to spend that including securing ones retirement, security, health care needs, and so on.
Coming soon to a puritanical former democracy near you.
So now China is the 'bad guy' for blocking websites? The UK has been doing this for years and Australia is now following suit. Except it's not the Chinese government but the Hollywood Government that's behind it. More European countries now do the same thing. Soon you'll see first Canada, then the US do the same thing ("bla bla Internation standard bla bla").
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