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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.
Now, what's his email address?
And does anyone know a good goatse mirror?
Come to think about it, most Europeans and most Americans do wish for that.
Scary phrase, there. I knew there was a Trump liked this guy Xi.
Who knew that Winnie the Pooh was so dirty and unrighteous.
Fuck Xi Jinping, fuck him up his stupid cartoon bear ass. (we both know the internet has images of that)
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This from a guy whose party has sanitized the killing of tens of millions of its own people, is now ruler for life, has a social credit score to force people to behave according to the CCP's wishes, could care less about the 300 million people in abject poverty without regular access to clean water, and won't acknowledge the Tiananmen Square massacre to the point of banning the term "63+1", or 6/4.
Yeah, you can go fuck yourself Xi Jinping. We'll keep trying to show your people how the rest of the world works and hopefully they'll finish what was started in 1989.
It's about time communism got with the program.
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But there's still a KTV every few blocks in every Chinese city.
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 Internet will be clean and righteous when humanity is clean and righteous. In other words: Never.
China will have periodic revolutions and will never be a front-rank country, Western angst notwithstanding.
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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.
... they're still blocking Tienanmen square. Because, remembering the tyranny of their own government is lacking in righteousness?... or cleanliness?
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Sanitizing of all media was a primary goal of Adolf. However I can understand this move from a perspective of historic Chinese social and their moral history. Mao was no saint but he did finally endorse a state set of morals largely based upon a Taoist cultural society. Thus todays leadership must bow to the will of the Chinese people in regard to social interaction morals. Amoral bureaucrats and political figures are a huge problem when a political system allows them to wield power over information, thus the people they are claiming to serve.
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I agree there's a lot of vulgar content to be removed.
I mean, Futanari is one thing, furry is another, but furry futanari? The line must be drawned here! /Picard
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See, according to Cocteau's plan, I'm the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind if guy who wants to sit in a greasy spoon and think, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I've seen the future, you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sittin' around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener". You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau's way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants.
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.
I bet he has no idea how much he has in common with Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Sex is righteous. Sex is how our species survives. It is the reason everyone of us exists. And so on.
Sex is not dirty. It is perfectly natural and clean. Sexual desire is not dirty. It is an instinct that our species relies on for continuance.
Pornography is not dirty. It is the most automatic expression of our sexual instincts, given the tech available. It plays its part in assisting the entire enterprise of keeping our species alive.
People who want to block pornography usually have an ulterior motive. Either they actually want to block a whole bunch of other things and are just using a widespread cultural discomfort with our own survival instincts to get the necessary approval, or they are threatened by the fact that standards of beauty actually exist and aren't always trivially easy to achieve. Or they are just under-developed and hence erroneously believe their own sexual instincts are dirty. In any case, they insist that pornography is dirty, when it is not.
And a dictator consolidating his power as we speak wants this massive censorsjip wave for purely coincidental reasons.
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when was the last time you criticized a government you supported?
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AC if you're going to go there then why not just sever all the cables connecting China to the rest of the Internet and let them have their own literal walled garden?
He's set himself up as Emperor for all intents and purposes. Apropos for Emperors, especially in China, he probably considers himself a god. Therefore anything he decrees as Good is 'righteous'. Disagreeing with him becomes 'blasphemy'. Disobeying his decrees makes you a 'sinner'. And so on.
The planet must be clean and righteous and Communists must be destroyed. Xi first.
Nazis get bayonets, Communists get helicopter rides, humans get freedom.
I saw just an epic speech by Dr. Jordan Peterson on free speech. It's about a half hour long but worth every minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Dr. Peterson explains how vital it is to speak freely to develop one's thoughts. If people are not able to say anything that isn't "righteous" then nothing of importance can be discussed. And who is to be the arbiter of what is righteous? To have a functioning society one needs to be able to say uncomfortable things. That includes "hate speech". Most anything of importance is in some way uncomfortable, hateful, or not "clean". It can be important as an example of good behavior as well as what we should not do.
To know what is good we at times need to see what is bad, and the damage this can cause. We define our heroes by their villains. You can't have Batman without the Joker. There is no Superman without Lex Luthor. These comic book characters borrow from old myths to the point of pulling Thor and Loki from mythical characters and turning them into big budget movies and comics. Wonder Woman borrows heavily from myth as well. In every case we see examples of heroes, fighting what we consider evil. To purge evil from society to the point that Chinese citizens can't even read of news of such evil outside their borders means Chinese people cannot learn how to see such evil within themselves.
This censorship can only end badly. We should not tolerate it in any form. That includes these college campus protests to "de-platform" people that student groups despise. By expressing intolerance for "bad speech" means in the end expressing a disdain for thinking clearly. If you cannot think of a better response then to make noise and smash things then you are no better than unthinking animals.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
We'd already settle for a clean and righteous Xi Jinping.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Isn't he an atheist? What does righteous mean?
Everything within the state. Nothing outside the state. Nothing against the state.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Are you talking about literal Nazis here?
The 1942 Berlin diversity and Gay pride parade was quite a show. People came in droves, from many different nationalities. The military turned up too, on account of the huge social welfare projects created by the newly expanded funding. Controling the executive, legislative and parliamentary branches of government created a utopia, with one man in charge.
The only part which sucked was when the German military forced the racially impure, the Jews, Roma, sexual deviants and enemies of the government at gun point into concentration camps where they were BURNED IN OVENS.
Because I thought they did, but I can't find any quotes from their movies to... uh... quote.
That's very much on-topic moron. Alex Jones is inciting violence, the idiot investigator with his AR-15 is a very likely example of what AJ is instigating.
Only I can judge you.
but America won't be taking away their most favorite nation status anytime soon. Meanwhile our close allies the Saudis are seeking the death penalty for a peaceful protestor who demanded women's rights. Last I checked we're still selling them bombs and they're still dropping them on school buses in Yemen.
It's all well and good to say "Fuck so and so" but until you vote people into office who will actually get tough on human rights abuses it's pissing in the wind.
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Far left are the actual communists and maybe the anarchists. We had a 50-90% tax rate in the 50s and 60s. All drugs legal comes with the stipulation that hard drug use is administered by the government and treated as an illness. Renewables isn't far left, it's common sense and the cap on wages comes from the Japanese who's economy stagnated shortly after they removed the caps.
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Sounds like a lot of kids in the USA and Europe.
Anything they deem to be bad is bad and must be removed from the pages of history.
Kind of exactly like Google/YouTube/Twitter already do
No Tibet?
No Taiwan?
No Tiananmen square?
No awkward cartoon bear?
Emperor?
The internet belongs to its users, not the Communist Party.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I can't wait for this wave of censorship intended to prevent violence to be applied fairly and consistently, with clear unwavering standards as to hold people accountable.
Oh wait, ha ha, we'll just walk past a mountain to point at a mole hill, and use any excuse we can think of to ban or hit someone we don't like.
We just need to shut down fascist voices. Fuck the alt right, they're just neo Nazis and don't deserve a seat at the table of civilization. That's right, I'm all for curtailing the voices of those fucktards.
Only I can judge you.
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You can do a reverse look-up (not always successful). Maybe he meant he blocked an IP range.
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He achieved his vision of Internet in China. Putin achieved his vision in Russia. In contrary to the naive belief of Internet enthusiasts, it turned out to be possible.
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I too hope that the internet will be righteous, radical, gnarly, and SO bad. Not sure about the clean part though?
China's reputation system will allow them to do this. By 2030 China will be the biggest economy in the world, and they will probably start exporting their scoring system to the rest of the world. Want to do business with Chinese people? Make sure you have a 'clean and righteous' social credit score in their system.
The bigger picture is that we are slowly moving from an information society towards a reputation society. Where the information society was about access to data and information, the reputation society is about the flow of social capital. Our social capital is measured now, both in China, but also in the west. Just this week we saw how Facebook is measuring trustworthiness. Behind the scenes databrokers have been deriving and selling data like this for a long time.
The 60's were all about breaking free from crippling social pressure to conform. Now the data driven panopticon might undo that.
The reputation society: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Facebook's reputation score: https://www.dailydot.com/debug...
Databrokers: http://crackedlabs.org/en
A cute endearing children character banned coz Xi and minions don't like the likeness assertions. Could be worse likeness such as the borg, vice lord etc I get there is desire to deter as rebellion symbol but that seems to on embolden it. Would have faded by now. Instead new movie coming out from West resurrecting story.
Here's a good example of someone being 'held accountable' for daring to display a symbol of the fascist alt-right neo nazis, and being 'censored' as your ilk would have it.
No thanks. Religious fanatics have no business deciding what is or isn't 'harmful' or 'hateful' for the rest of us. Only a fool would submit to this kind of tyranny.
You don't know what you're talking about. Please give up now and find a new hobby.
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