China Shut Down 44,000 Pornograpy Sites in 2007
The Chinese government went Web-site-censoring crazy last year. According to the official state media Xinhua News Agency, China shut down over 44,000 Web sites and arrested 868 people for Internet pornography. The shutdowns and arrests were part of a crackdown on Internet pornography that had "perverted China's young minds," according to China's Public Security Ministry.
Despite the massive number of site closings and arrests, China has struggled to block the offending content (see the related links below for more on China's efforts in 2007). The Internet by its very nature is open and almost impossible to control. Whether China is attempting to block pornography, online gaming, or political dissent, it's likely to fail over time with any censoring eforts.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Ken @ Jan 25th 2008 6:26AM
Considering China's issues with population explosion, you'd think they'd be thrilled their young people are learning about oral and anal sex!
hahahahahaha
Other than that, since when is censorship in a communist country considered "news?"
Moe! @ Jan 25th 2008 6:58AM
Something else they can blame on the USA. Would sex be up there with McDonalds for the worse of US influences on their peoples...LOL
mark @ Jan 25th 2008 6:59AM
why our country should follow suite!
Nick A Demos @ Jan 25th 2008 7:01AM
Too many people are addicted to Pornography, Secretly, religious people, business people,all walks of life it runs the gambit
Sleepy @ Jan 25th 2008 7:07AM
That is just horrible. I would go nuts if I lived in Chines. God Bless America!
tedrockledge @ Jan 25th 2008 7:20AM
44,000 That ought to cover the Country!
Nick A Demos @ Jan 25th 2008 7:21AM
If a man only looks at his wife, she will become the most beautiful woman in the world in his eyes.
RebelwoaCloo @ Jan 25th 2008 7:32AM
Damn commies! Looking at naked people and doing who-knows-what else. Red China has become the Strokers' Party.
tastadr @ Jan 25th 2008 7:40AM
Porno is still a bigger industry in China than here in the US by almost twice, despite censorship. Censorship in a Socialist country? Look at your own country, plenty of censorship in our Corpocracy. Open your nationalistic eyes and see the truth.
As for socialism it seems to work fine in the health care system for our politians, ( lifetime health care, on your dime ).
jaxmax60 @ Jan 25th 2008 7:48AM
It is a fair trade agreement --- we export cheap porn --- they export cheap products.
jessieluvsya3 @ Jan 25th 2008 8:02AM
i say great job , i am sorry but i think porn is one of the things that hurts society the most , you expect men to respect women but yet you put all the crap everywhere and teach them from the youngest age possiblethat this is accepted and i think its just wrong
Bill @ Jan 25th 2008 8:28AM
Have you seen asian porn?
Freaking disgusting.They like to poop on eachother and diaper men and all kinda of weird stuff.
Their porn and our porn are nothing alike.Their normal porn is our bizzar sick porn
lenny @ Jan 25th 2008 8:32AM
I love this: a lesson in morality from those fine folks who brought us Tienanmen Square
DANNY CORNETT @ Jan 25th 2008 8:33AM
Good for China.Now maybe the good old USA will follow suit.Of course,we are a free country,so the idea that we could be communist in our restrictions of porn in our small little world is at best foreign.
Mike @ Jan 25th 2008 8:35AM
That would explain why I couldn't go porn surfing while I was there. Three months with no porn, horrible food and icky weather. I've had better assignments!
Just in case anyone is traveling over there, make sure you do not have any porn CD's with you or in your luggage. If you get caught it is like 1200 US dollars per offense.
bonnie @ Jan 25th 2008 8:35AM
44,000 Man, that's great! Good for them! Shut em ALL down!
jack @ Jan 25th 2008 8:42AM
Porn is a 60 billion dollar a year industry in the usa , God bless porn
Richard Serafini @ Jan 25th 2008 8:43AM
its pretty dam sad that a comumnist country can set a higher moral standard to try and stave off the wrong influences that the internet promotes to stop their young and old people from being affected by truly un-civilized behavior of sick and filthy minds . Blind people wake up ,China is becoming the new America of the next millenium and what does America do? Pollute more than any other country on EARTH!
ted @ Jan 25th 2008 8:50AM
iam not for the porne sites but 1 question if they did it to church sites here in the u.s.a.would you be saying the same thing?its still your choice to look our not look..its mine not to look..and if kids are looking at them where are the parents control? you cant spank your child today with out going to jail.bet you can over there..how many times i see kids back talking and cursing there parents outnow they send them to there room for a time out so they play on there computers and cell phones..just one time my kids do to me like that and it aint going to take 2 seconds and there little ass is mine
vick @ Jan 25th 2008 8:54AM
and now if only the US could follow suit...
porn is a horrible thing that exploits women everywhere. the women who participate only do it for money and to achieve a sense of validation. it's really sad and needs to be done away with.