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China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years (reuters.com)
China has closed more than 13,000 websites since the beginning of 2015 for breaking the law or other rules and the vast majority of people support government efforts to clean up cyberspace, state news agency Xinhua reports. From the report: The government has stepped up already tight controls over the internet since President Xi Jinping took power five years ago, in what critics say is an effort to restrict freedom of speech and prevent criticism of the ruling Communist Party. The government says all countries regulate the internet, and its rules are aimed at ensuring national security and social stability and preventing the spread of pornography and violent content. A report to the on-going session of the standing committee of China's largely rubber stamp parliament said the authorities had targeted pornography and violence in their sweeps of websites, blogs and social media accounts, Xinhua said.
What I don't understand is, why does China's government even *care* about porn? It's an atheist state that theoretically was spared the neurotic hang-ups Christianity has inflicted on the rest of the world.
Ditto, for China's official opposition to homosexuality & gay rights. With China's goal of limiting population growth & keeping people content, you'd think it would actively *encourage* guys who like dick to stick to guys... fewer babies, and more women for the men who genuinely *want* a woman.
China has a *serious* problem with its lopsided male-majority population. If every single woman in China married one man, something like 5-10% of its population would never be able to have a Chinese wife because too many women aborted female babies back in the 70s & 80s because they wanted their one (and only) child to be a son. Those men are a far bigger threat to China's social order than porn and gay people could *ever* be.
In the USA you can publish fiction, non fiction, science fiction, art and music. Books, art, movies, comments, reviews in the USA can contain any number of decadent lifestyles.
People can buy your books, art, music, review and comment on your past work.
In the USA you are free to buy and then read a book form Japan, South Korea. No questions later in the USA.
People in the USA have freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
No neighborhood committees reporting book reading habits to a Communist party.
In the USA you are free to talk about an author, to an author, comment on their books, write your own book, sell a book, import a book. No totalitarian communist party to stop your freedom in the USA.
Communist China has absolute control over their nations internet, VPN use, media and publications.
The USA has and protects freedom.
Communism in China has control.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Except it doesn't work. China has a history of forcing out foreign companies as soon as a domestic version is available, no matter how much the foreign company bends over backwards to comply with Chinese censorship laws.
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the vast majority of people support government efforts to clean up cyberspace, state news agency Xinhua reports.
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