The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn

An anonymous reader writes "Despite repeated 'for the children' campaigns, the Western Web as a whole has provided little or no isolation of pornography. This is why the Chinese are now attempting to march to a place where no country has been before: a Web without porn. Recent regulations have included closing down 'vulgar' mobile sites, disconnecting 'obscene' servers, and restricting domain registrations. Yet the breaking news for Monday is that China is planning to enforce a whitelist on foreign domains: in particular, any e-commerce will have to register locally and obey Chinese law before they get whitelisted. Domains will otherwise be 'irresolvable' to Chinese Internet users. Meanwhile, the government is promoting this campaign heavily, calling it a 'fresh start.' It seems the Chinese may have to do without the Internet, before they can rid it of porn."

Anyone else read that as

[Anonymous Coward]

The Chinese Route to Web of Free Porn?

Re:Hum?

[OrangeTide]

I only use the internet to spread dissonant lies about my government and to look at porn.

Heh

[DrugCheese]

Might as well remove all the salt in the ocean while they're at it.

Fresh start

[syousef]

Fresh start today. Hundreds of fresh young....

never mind

Don't give conroy any ideas!!!

[SlightOverdose]

No no no, Don't give Conroy and the religious nuts behind the Australian 'Clean Feed' any ideas. They've already done enough damage

Correlation /= Causation

[Nebulious]

This is a terrible mistake on the Chinese government's part. Just because every ruling party member likely looked at pornography as a child and became terrible people does not mean that every person who sees pornography in their childhood will grow up to be just as cold, calculating, and authoritarian.

After a thorough review

[istartedi]

Afer a thorough review, being very careful to make sure that there is absolutely no sexual connotation whatsoever, we have determined that all but the following are prohibited:

Binary 1. No. Dammit. OK. Zero. Dammit!!! Nevermind.

Say wha?

[Anonymous Coward]

I only use the internet to spread dissonant lies about my government and to look at porn. ...
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government." -- Thomas Jefferson

I swear, the first time I looked at your post, the attribution to Jefferson in your sig got mis-assigned to the whole post, leading to a very "wtf" moment...

Join the club, China

[Anonymous Coward]

Glad I live in Australia, where freedom of speech rules and the population wouldn't put up with this bullshit. Oh wait ...

Re:Anyone else read that as

[D'Sphitz]

haha you said nigger. woo hoo for you. tee hee its so shocking, it's like we're all sitting here going "oh no he dint" and you're like "oh yes I did, I said it, nigger". brilliant, original, edgy, shocking, way to buck society man.

Re:I don't get it

[DNS-and-BIND]

USA the ultimate prudes?!?! Whaaaaaaaat? Where the F did that one come from? The USA has one of the most liberal sexual attitudes this side of Amsterdam. Legal nude beaches, legal pornography on satellite TV, 100% unrestricted internet including all the dark parts (and internet porn can get really really dark), as well as unrestricted travel and emigration for those who find America a cesspool of good morals. Hell, all you have to do is go south of the border, you'll find no shortage of men who won't marry anyone but a proven virgin. Go to other continents and you'll find mothers who proudly display bloody sheets to the entire neighborhood after her son's wedding night, to applause and general approval from the audience.

It doesn't break down society as far as you can tell? Well, thanks for that blinding insight! Surely, sir, your opinion is universal and speaks for all mankind. Actually, pornography degrades the human spirit. If you don't think so, there are billions of humans who think exactly this way. Pornography takes a sacred act and makes it profane. China has already developed the infrastructure necessary to block damaging internet content - this is just one implementation. Sure, there will always be stag movies or black-market DVDs. However, free easy porn is something that China has decided is harmful. Who the fuck are you to judge China?

Re:Anyone else read that as

[Jane Q. Public]

Just like those "free drug" workplaces?

Re:I don't get it

[GF678]

Who the fuck are you to judge China?

Who the fuck at the Chinese to criticize Americans for how THEY do things?

Seriously, everyone judges everyone. It's part of being human. Now FUCK OFF and leave me to judge.

Re:Anyone else read that as

[ihuntrocks]

It would look exactly like this: http://www.commujism.com/ [commujism.com]

im gonna have to quate the good dr cox

[Ryanrule]

I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be 1 website left and it would be called "Bring Back The Porn"

Re:I don't get it

[Normal Dan]

internet porn can get really really dark

[citation needed]

Re:Fresh start

[corsendonk]

But hey... in China, Too Young is just a name!

The Command economy will eventually

[vorlich]

collapse under its own weight. No matter how many IOU's it has from the USA, the Communist Party of China only remains in power as long as it has a booming economy. The present economic miracle in China is a very recent phenomena and mostly results from the simple arithmetic of raising living standards from nothing to something which always appears to be a large increase. When the economic bubble bursts (and it will) the various factions within the CP and the Red Army will carve their own piece of the Chinese pie to the exclusion of all other interests. By that time, the great firewall and this nonsense won't make any difference.
Then Ikea will invade.

Re:So That Takes Care of Wikipedia Then?

[maxume]

Too bad!

Those children would fetch quite a price in New York City.

Re:So That Takes Care of Wikipedia Then?

[ciderVisor]

paying people per site to find 'pornographic' sites

I think I've just found my dream job description.

Re:Your sig

[pwfffff]

Omgomgomg post again please. I must know if it's possible to fail harder than you already have.