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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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Subscribe to commentsJustMeJan 29th 2008 1:38AM
Banning something does not guarantee complete riddance of it. Saying we should ban porn is like saying we should ban guns because they kill people...don't mind the idiots pulling the triggers. If you don't support porn, don't watch it. It does not cause marriages to crumble; those marriages were doomed to fail anyway if something as stupid as porn can get in the way. It is ridiculous how people NEED to have something to point the finger at instead of looking at the marriage or relationship itself. Some relationships actually benefit from porn! My boyfriend and I can watch it together and enjoy it mutually. I see it as a test to see how strong we really are. I am not threatened; if any man is going to ditch his girlfriend or wife because of the women he sees in porn flicks, quite a shallow man he is and you shouldn't be with him anyway. Find a good significant other who knows how to respect you for what you have inside! And no, porn does not create pedophiles and rapists...those people already have those desires and will find some way to satisfy them, porn or not.
Mike RathJan 28th 2008 3:40PM
Like anything else, if you don't like it, turn the dial, switch the station or don't log in....
Easy enough, instead of trying to legislate other people's lives....
noa davisonJan 30th 2008 1:47PM
you christian bigots oughtta have yer freakin BIBLES banned. thats what pollutes minds, starts wars and misleads the whole world.not somebody doing anal on a pron site.debbie, vick and all you other bible thumpers need to move to COMMIE china because you are all RED in your thinking.as if china with thier record of human rights abuses has a moral leg to stand on.
if you dont like America, GET THE F OUT! being a christian doesnt give you the right or "the moral authority" to censor a FREE nation.maybe I
DONT WANT MY KIDS READING THE BIBLE...SO CENSOR THAT!