Porn Sites Pop Up In China 126
crimeandpunishment writes "It may only be a temporary glitch, but it's one that's providing some pleasure for Internet users in China. Previously blocked websites, including ones with pornography, are suddenly accessible in China. The country has a long history of cracking down on online pornography. One analyst says it's far more likely that this is a glitch, not a change in Internet censorship policy."
Re:not applicable to hotels? (Score:3, Informative)
Hey, they're masseuses, not mistresses. And besides, the "happy endings" are too expensive.
Re:Why is China blocking porn? (Score:3, Informative)
Chinese propaganda was loud and strong against Tibetans and their religion. It was the excuse that China used to march in and take over: we're liberating the workers from the chains of superstitious belief. It continues today with tirades against the Dalai Lama. A little learning goes a long way in curing ignorance.
Re:Why is China blocking porn? (Score:1, Informative)
Buddhists, Taoists, Muslim, Christian are four big religions in China. They are religions, not tradition. Ancestor worship and confucius related stuff are tradition mixing with religions, depends on your own thought.
Basically, Chinese have a very complex religious world view, mixing traditional Chinese religion with philosophy like Taoism makes the religion of Taoism, which is so local that for many of its religious stuff, we are not sure what's tradition and what is religion anymore. Because it's a religion based on philosophy and ancient religion and philosophies.
Buddhist joined into the game later. As usual, after being in China for years, it's seen as local religion and slowly start mixing in local philosophy and Taoism philosophy together with Buddhist.
Chinese and Japanese (not sure about Korean but probably the same) have a "multi-god" world view that is very complex and nothing near the simplicity of Christian. Each religions have many gods, and some gods are very local that they're not being worship by non-local people. Over years, for some gods, we have no idea which religion those are in anymore and religion customs start to mix. Basically, Buddhist, Taoist, and local Chinese tradition and religion have a very heavy mix in religion and philosophy. And religious people who are not in neither religion usually worship local god of the two religions and major gods of both religions. Using a simple way to say it, Chinese and Japanese "worship all god".
Now, if you take the philosophy side of all these Chinese religions, then those are "tradition and philosophy". But more often than not, it's religion.
Tibetans are Buddhist also. It has very deep relationship with Chinese Buddhism. I don't think mainland government have much negative propaganda against Tibet Buddhism except they won't recognize the highest Tibetan Buddhist to *own* the region like before. And I don't see propagandas against Tibetans neither. Mainland government have long be very careful about the so called "Great-Han Civilization" stream of thought to the point that they suppress our traditional clothing sometimes and ignore some of our request to "teach" the government that our cloths are not "Manchu" people's cloth, which is what they usually wear in shows during Chinese new year etc.
Believe it or not, I'd say the western medias have more propagandas against mainland China than mainland government have against Tibetans.