Porn Sites Still Exposed In China

crimeandpunishment writes "Could it be that internet censorship in China has a pecking order? Politics and human rights are bad — but porn is okay? The porn sites that suddenly popped up in China two months ago are still accessible, leaving people wondering if it's a change in policy, a glitch, or maybe a test by the Chinese Internet police. The Chinese government isn't saying, but one Internet analyst speculates, 'Maybe they are thinking that if Internet users have some porn to look at, then they won't pay so much attention to political matters.'"

Re:It works in the US

[darkstar949]

I believe what the grandparent is referring to is the unbalancing of the genders due to the One Child Per Family policy and the cultural preference to have a male as opposed to a female. Since there are currently more males than females reaching sexual maturity, the government is likely worried about the social unrest this will cause since it means that the men will be unable to find a wife to start a family with.

There have been a number of articles about this in recent months and some scholars are speculating that China will encourage immigration from other countries to even up the ratio or perhaps even enact policy that will encourage the migration of the men for the same reasons. Likewise, some NGOs are worried that there will be an increase in prostitution in China since the demand will go up among men who are unable to find wives.

Re:Malware

[HungryHobo]

1:http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1618216/Regular-Domains-Have-More-Malware-Than-Porn-Sites?from=rss
Regular Domains Have More Malware Than Porn Sites

2:
China is not the source of all hackers or malware.
the USA is still the main source of spam and almost certainly still the main source of malware.
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/04/28/us-still-main-source-of-spam [webpronews.com]

Cut out the racist crap.
China is no worse when it comes to hackers than the US.

Re:Not sure. Maybe. Maybe not.

[sznupi]

It doesn't even really have to be something "ominous", etc.; from to time something nice gets through. My place was behind the Iron Curtain, but not many people realize today (even / especially locally) that we actually had...reasonably decent, given the circumstances, freedom of speech. You could say really a lot, as long as it was in in the right place and time - most notably cabarets or concerts; almost openly treated by the regime as some sort of venting area. Not much different, perhaps even in slightly better style, than free speech zones / First Amendment Zones.

Re:Exporting the Male Population Surplus

[iNaya]

Unfortunately for us English speakers, Mandarin is much harder to learn than English is for Mandarin speakers :P

I disagree. Mandarin isn't a very hard language. Chinese writing, however, is very much harder than English writing to learn... But even then, once you have a thousand characters or so down, the rest are a lot easier to learn.