More Than 5,000 Arrested in Chinese Porn Crackdown
Chinese officials say that, in the last year, they have arrested over 5,000 people in an effort to crack down on Internet pornography.
Reuters cites a statement released late last week in which Chinese police claim the crackdown on Internet pornography brought 5,394 arrests and 4,186 criminal case investigations in 2009. These numbers represent a fourfold increase in the number of such cases compared with the year 2008.
While the statement on China's Ministry of Public Security website does not indicate how many of these people were charged and prosecuted or how many were released, we are told to expect things to intensify in the next year.
China last year endured heavy criticism for the Green Dam project, which would have seen filtering software installed on every computer sold in Mainland China. Green Dam would have filtered out all different kinds of content that the government deemed inappropriate, including pornography. Eventually, after months of back and forth, the software was made optional.
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Arrests over regular porn? We're not talking child pornography?
Jesus China. So you don't want them having sex cause god forbid they have more than 1 kid and now you want to control this too? Do you want a bunch or irritable people?
HOly crap.
The Chinese govmt is so hypocrite... how do they expect to curb a billion horny people from seeking porn?
GOD, if it wasn't for my computer and the glorious porn it produces, i would have like 5 kids by now...
I hate censored porn, so I view those 5,394 individuals as crusaders.
A dog walking around with it's tail up flashed me its anus without a black bar on it! Arrest it!
Grab your dick and double click for porn porn porn. 10 minutes later big brother comes in full combat gear and smashes down the door if fail do like the FBI did in my town of Waco get out the tanks.
Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.
"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."
5000 people in one film? Thats one big gangbang!
Don't be so damn ignorant. I am sure there are reasons for it. How about children who have access to free porn sites all over the world? Yea, I am sure that helps society out by giving access to 10-16 year old's without a hitch.
GOD, if it wasn't for my computer and the glorious porn it produces, i would have like 5 kids by now...
You wouldn't have shit. That's the reason you sit behind your computer and beat off in the first place.
All I can think of is that it's the unnatural porn the Chinese government is trying to stamp out.
Shame, first time didn't include the link.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/12/30/
"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."
Dude, chill out. Don't worry about a thing. Mother nature won't let humans get away with anything for too long of a run. Then, it'll start allover again unless the sun continues to grow (which it is) and earth gets moved out of the safe zone and turns into a burning fireball.
In the year 2072, all China save for top officers have been replaced by robots that obey every commands, do nothing but work and have absolutely no life.
In the year 2072, all China save for top officers have been replaced by robots that obey every commands, do nothing but work and have absolutely no life.
Sooo, life consists of internet porn?
Such a strange culture/country. I can't help but think that if I ever visited the place, I would feel the weight of Chairman Mao crushing me into a little box of conformity. And then I would rebel by pulling out my laptop in public, firing up some porn, and furiously masterbating until they drag me away to some re-education dungeon.
Don't be naive. This is not a anti-pornography crusade. It's just an excuse to arrest people who criticize the government.
Now how am I supposed to judge how good my Mail Order Bride is if she can't do porn first....
Grrrr
I can see the Chinese assault and murder rate climbing in the near future.
"Porn" and "Internet" are two words that never should be placed after "Cracking down on" but the Chinese government thinks it can do something about it.
omg
whoa....
china . lol . and most of the people there are more like us for any matter , i'm sure , its always the leadership , and maoist single totalitarian party beliefs in this case , that i lol'ed at .
as a true example of this leadership and its long term aims , not to condemn the common people which more or less are like us in india , yeah except the looks , they invaded us right after proclaiming friendship in 1960's .
they get arrested for watching porn but they don't get arrested for hacking, wtf is going on here?
WTF? Porn is the only thing capable of slowing that population growth... Well that or the eventual starvation of just about everyone
All I can think of is that it's the unnatural porn the Chinese government is trying to stamp out.
First off, it's just regular porn we are talking about in this article.
Secondly, there is no such thing as "unnatural." Nature includes everything in existance. You can't have "non-nature" or "anti-nature" (you can have anti-matter, but that's still part of nature).
I believe what you intended to refer to is harmful pornography (in that it involves people incapable of understanding and consenting to the situation and therefore capable of being abused (aka child pornography)).
Most people may not agree with Chinese government. Chinese tradition(Garage In Garage out). That problem with these country(USA) the proof is in the pudding. Maybe are government may learn something from this.
Idle Mind is a Devil Mind.
Huh??? Dude, the guy just quoted directly from 1984, he's not ranting. But unless these 5394 arrests were for using a laptop to display kiddy porn over a projector in a town square then what a person chooses to do in the sanctity of their own home is nothing to do with the Government.Get this, porn magazines are not illegal, neither are VHS or DVD porn movies (assuming the content isn't animals, kids, etc) so the actual content isn't the issue, it's the delivery method. This is all about Governmental control freakery. If some Chinese dude wants to log onto www.youporn.com and spank the monkey till his arms look like Popeye then you should let him. At least he's not out knocking up some woman and producing yet another ant for the farm. Plus it keeps the tissue and lube industry busy.
Thanks for the explanation but I didn't say he was ranting. If you couldn't tell by what I typed that I was being silly than I don't know what to tell you. Please stop sticking up for your buddy. I wasn't attacking him.