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State-Run Chinese TV Says Porn Causes . . . Oh Yeah, Memory Loss

by Warren Riddle on June 26, 2009 at 02:17 PM


Western media is apparently spreading its degenerative depravity to the People's Republic of China, or at least according to the state-run Chinese television network CCTV. During a recently conducted "man-on-the-street" interview pertaining to the influx of Internet pornography, the channel depicted specifically controversial images and sites accessible through Google.cn (the Chinese version of the search engine) and claimed that the raunchy shots harm individuals.

According to BoingBoing.com, CCTV (who also publicly lambasted rival search engine Baidu) consulted a supposedly regular Chinese student, named Gao Ye, who expressed concern over a fellow scholar's pornography habits. Gao specifically mentioned the memory loss his friend suffered was a result of viewing too much Web bawdiness. No strangers to vetting apparently, suspicious viewers carried out a little Net research on Gao, and, as it turns out, he was actually a CCTV intern at the time of the interview. Shocking.

The Chinese government has attempted to regulate and censor pornography, specifically telling Google to stop foreign searches. Yet, they may just be following the lead of U.S. politicians who express outrage and concern over lost job productivity because of employees viewing porn at work. It could make sense. We always heard that lascivious material caused blindness and hairy palms, but memory loss? Well, maybe we have heard that before, we just can't quite remember. [From: BoingBoing]

Tags: cctv, google, google.cn, internet porn, InternetPorn, top

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