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Chinese President Xi Jinping Says Internet Must Be 'Clean and Righteous' (reuters.com)
The internet must be "clean and righteous" and vulgar content must be resisted in the field of culture, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a meeting of senior propaganda officials, state media said on Wednesday. From a report: The government has been tightening controls over internet content as part of what it says are efforts to maintain social stability, taking on "vulgar" and pornographic content as well as the unauthorised dissemination of news. The moves come amid a broader clamp-down targeting online content from livestreams and blogs to mobile gaming, as the country's leaders look to tighten their grip over a huge and diverse cultural scene online popular with China's youth. Speaking at a two-day meeting, attended by officials from major state media outlets and the internet regulator, Xi said propaganda efforts needed to be put front and centre, the official Xinhua news agency said. "Uphold a clean and righteous internet space," the report cited Xi as saying. China shut as many as 128,000 websites that contained obscene and other "harmful" information in 2017, Xinhua reported in January, citing government data.
So do bible-thumpers. There's no meaningful difference between left-nazis and right-nazis here.
In the US, far left is currently mainstream while far right is not (Unite the Right 2018 had ~20 participants, most of the hype came from Russian trolls), while eg. in Poland the left is nearly non-existent while far right is everywhere, but that's just a matter of different colors of the same. Just note the name: national socialism.
Their policies are very alike. This includes censorship.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
that Tibet belongs to the Tibetans and that the Chinese project of replacing the Tibetans with Han Chinese will be reversed. And, Taiwan can now be considered an independent country of 23 million Chinese and can determine their own future with full recognition from Beijing.
Hope springs eternal...and in Xi's China, goes there to die.
The difference between all of those groups and Xi is that he actually has the power to censor the Internet.
You mean, deplatforming isn't a thing?
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
China will have periodic revolutions and will never be a front-rank country, Western angst notwithstanding.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
Know what this fuckwad communist dictator sounds like? The Puritans. Remember them? They were at least as corrupted as anyone else, all the while pretending to pure and 'righteous'. Of course in this case it's an order of magnitude worse: this jackass includes things like 'freedom of speech', 'freedom of expression', 'criticizing the communist party', 'criticizing the government', and of course 'criticizing him' among the things he considers 'vulgar' and 'pornographic' content.
As an aside to all this: know what I think is really ironically funny about this? For a country that has recorded history going back, what, 3000 years at least? They still fail to learn from their own history. This guy has set himself up as Emperor of China for all intents and purposes. How's that worked out for you in the past, China? Do you even remember? Or has the Communist party removed your access to (or worse, rewritten) your own history, too? Sad, sad, sad. I actually feel bad for the average Chinese citizen.
I was born in "communist" Yugoslavia, and lived there through my early childhood in the 80s. There was no Internet, but the only three national TV programs were what you could call "Clean and Righteous". Lots of educational stuff through the morning, classic Disney or Fleischer cartoons before bedtime, movie classics, both domestic and foreign in the evening.
Yugoslavia was torn down in early 90s by "western democracies", split to smaller, weaker countries, and one of them - Serbia, where I live now - was finally bombed in late 90s and early Y2K with depleted uranium by NATO member states. We finally got rid of the "dictators" and got "democracy".
A few weeks ago my 7 year old son asked me and my wife if he could watch football world cup semifinals on TV because our neighbor Croatia played, although it was past his bedtime (9PM). We allowed, but at the half-time we were genuinely afraid to start to switch through channels because we knew there will be stuff we don't want him to see. And don't get the wrong impression, as I completed Medal of Honor with him when he was 5, and at the same time he saw Lord of the Rings - he ain't a snowflake.
Freedom and democracy and free speech my ass. If you don't take western corporations' shit and also pay for it you get depleted uranium. Maybe not if you are as powerful as China.
Or perhaps you should study what science has to say: https://fightthenewdrug.org/
Porn makes people stupid. Science FTW.
Ah, so the structures that successfully kept societies together for 2000 years "can safely be regarded as a fundamental failure"? How convenient. All religions over history combined have killed fewer people than communism, of course.
Any set of laws, without a sense of morality to guide their interpretation and enforcement, can be turned to evil. Does that make the concept of "laws" bad? Of "morality"? Or does it simply mean that humans are fallible?
There was this guy once who said that scripture is complicated, and it's easy to read it wrong, so if you think it's telling you to hurt someone, that's how you know you're reading it wrong. He got pretty famous for saying things like that, though it didn't end well for him. However, he got the last laugh, as it turns out, since you've probably heard of him.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.