China to boost ‘porn’ censorship campaign
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- ‘Online porn #2 on China Top 10 list’ said a p2pnet headline on December 30.
“What is really messed up is that cracking down on file sharing websites was a higher priority on the list than cracking down on human trafficking,” said a Reader’s Write.
That’s because Hollywood and Big Music have, with the approval and full cooperation of the last four US administrations, been able to elevate copyright infringement, hitherto a relatively minor commercial matter, to the level of major crime.
And in another comment, “China Arrests 5,394 People in Internet Porn Sweep,” says Melina, linking to a Mashable story, which states >>>
2009 saw its share of stories about the Chinese government’s attempt to “filter” the internet for its citizens, including blocking popular social sites, mandating blocking software on all PCs sold in the country, petitioning Google to remove content from its Chinese index, and more.
The net result? 5,394 arrests and 4,186 criminal case investigations during 2009 — four times more than in the previous year.
Critics say the drive is a “tool to deepen censorship of political views expressed through user-generated content, and that the campaign is as much about taking control over new media as about cracking down on internet porn,” Mashable says, noting banned sites include YouTube, Twitter, Flickr and Facebook.
The anti-pornography drive will be “intensified in the coming year” and “punishments for violators: will be “even more severe,” the story adds.
Here’s the list we mentioned earlier:
- Chongqing triad
- Online porn
- Drunk driving
- Mobile porn
- Soccer scandals
- File-sharing websites
- Human trafficking
- xxxxxxxx
- Celebrity endorsements
- Phone scams
Number 8? “… wandering around the neighborhoods in pajamas”.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet – Online porn #2 on China Top 10 lista, December 30, 2009
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January 2nd, 2010 at 8:12 pm
The Chinese ‘authorities’ will probably buy a few more mobile execution buses (they really have them, look it up) and just go ahead and execute anyone who even thinks about anything pornographic. That’ll show everyone who’s boss. Oh, and while they’re at it, they can increase their export of harvested organs, skin, and collagen made from the executed scoff-laws.
That sure is some country they’ve got, isn’t it? And just think, they’re our #1 trading partner! Goes to show you how messed-up our priorities are when we’ll trade with a nation that slaughters humans like we slaughter cattle. Our politicians really care about the human rights of the Chinese don’t they? I guess human rights are something to fight for UNLESS it gets in the way of profits and an ample supply of cheap junk at Walmart.
Hey, Americans, Canadians, and all others that think they live in a free country: THIS CAN HAPPEN HERE TOO. Don’t think for a second there aren’t powerful forces behind the scenes that want to censor your interwebs and rule you like a slave. Heck, just a few weeks ago the Financial Post (a popular Toronto-based publication) was calling for an oppressive one-child policy that memes China’s brutal system. Australia is now moving forward on a mandatory Chinese-style internet filter.
The Chinese people have been gelded, and this same process is at work in the West. The men are becoming weak, selfish, petty, and stupid. Soon nobody will be left to defend freedom. Everyone is too busy watching sports and drinking their brain-cells to death. Meanwhile 80% of the fruits of your labour are stolen from you to build pyramids for Pharaoh (ie the corporate/gov’t crony gravy-train).
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:40 am
Australia censors anti-censorship site http://ow.ly/RAyb and http://ow.ly/RAye Not a good start to year
January 3rd, 2010 at 8:19 am
@execute everyone for everything
the filtering and spying and all that reminds me of a cartoon I saw on chan4chan of a woman in her house and 2 vans, and a satellite that read FBI, CIA, and NSA(spying on her obviously) and the caption of the woman saying “What did they want? Our freedom?” or something like that
and this one >> http://chan4chan.com/archive/37046/at&t_-_Your_world._Delivered._To_the_NSA.
Australia, my home, far to say is quite Advanced in Tech, The State of Victoria and Melbourne now have the fastest Internets in Australia with Telz announced 100mbps plans >> http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/03/telstra_boosting_melbourne_cable_broadband_to_100mbps/ (but you would have to wave goodbye to good ol’ DSL)
yet, our idiotic Government is planning to filter it
Kevin Rudd uses Twitter really? Do you wanna keep the P.M. from his tweets?
http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM/status/7327872081 that reminds me… your going to love this Jon!
Mr.Rudd now writing Kids books, there was only one person that actually didnt think the book was based on fiction lol Jasper and Abbey the cat and dog