[CHAMPviaDQ]

Beijing: China announced to launch a renewed campaign against the spread of pornography on the Internet and asked websites and portals to clean up their links to avoid shutdown. The campaign 'Cleaning the Web 2014' will conduct thorough checkups on websites, search engines and mobile application stores, Internet TV USB sticks, and set-top boxes, the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications said in a circular.

The campaign will last until November, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
China launches crackdown on online pornography, asks websites to clean up their links to avoid shutdown
The campaign 'Cleaning the Web 2014' will conduct thorough checkups on websites, search engines and mobile application stores, Internet TV USB sticks, and set-top boxes.

All online texts, pictures, videos and advertisements with pornographic content will be deleted, according to the circular. Websites, web channels and columns will be shut down or have their administrative license revoked if they are found to produce or spread pornographic information, it said. Websites, telecom operators and web portals were asked to conduct a self-examination instantly and clean up information and links. The campaign is in response to the persistent spread of pornography online despite multiple previous campaigns.

Sauce: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/china-launches-crackdown-on-online-pornography-asks-websites-to-clean-up-their-links-to-avoid-shutdown/464901-11.html

Jergens and Kleenex to report heavy losses in 2014.

Seriously though, China is pretty serious about it's traditions/censorship. For instance when World of Warcraft hit China all 'bones' had to be removed and or covered up in the game. Blizzard Entertainment complied and made the changes which must have been quite a project since one of the expansions focused heavily on 'undead' creatures and a playable race is Undead and show bones.

Now the crusade against on-line pornography in China is on. INB4: 'Glad I don't live in China'.

 

[Stone Cold Steve Urkel]

Looks like if the people don't wanna be plowed in the ass by this new campaign, they're gonna have to pull up their bootstraps, oil up a couple of asses, and do a little plowing of their own.

 

[Gandhi]

I always liked Japan better.

 

[TAR]

Heh 'Erects' 8*D

 

[Chrome]

I always liked Japan better.

Yeah, China is against porno, while Japan seems to embrace it.

 

[Punkhead]

I always liked Japan better.

Japanese porn is censored, but still better than no porn.

 

[ManiacMichaelMyers]

Those poor, poor people.
No fap fap for you China.

No, but seriously they'll probably be overall better off, well except in matters of emulating filthy and degrading sexual acts.

 

[chronoxiong]

So how are guys going to fap in that country? Thank god I don't live there. I rather go live in Japan where its accepted there.

 

[Obfuscation]

Japanese porn is censored, but still better than no porn.

nah, it's a waste of time. terrible display of art.

 

[SOR]

Serious question here, do these countries that block things out know about proxy servers and the thousands of other things online that allow you to access pornography and anything else you want in an anonymous way?

Seems like a massive waste of time and effort to block something that people with a small understanding of computers can get around very easily.

 

[sandsaro]

Having lived in China I can say that they do a pretty decent job in blocking stuff. And not only that but they block anything such as vpn sites and whatnot. They even block searches involving certain terms. So no, it isn't that easy to get around.

 

[Zen]

Surprised by the lack of puns in this thread

 

[Wealdstone Raider]

Just when I thought that country couldn't get any worse

 

[TKOK]

Meanwhile in Japan.....

 

[Barry Horowitz]

Meanwhile in Japan.....

That absolutely has to become an official smiley on this site.

 

[Barry Horowitz]

I'm torn. While I hate a Big Bad Government looking over everyone's shoulder, pornography is one of the worst things mankind has ever invented. It not only hurts those involved, but drastically affects societal attitudes, hurting people who don't even watch it.

It's tragic when you live in a day and age when the unpopular viewpoint is supported by facts and the popular viewpoint is supported by "LOLz- porn is teh shittzzz!! FAP FAP FAP!!!!" Sadly, the latter view is also what I have noticed college professors in the social sciences sharing with their students. Intellectuals, eh?

 

[Gandhi]

Serious question here, do these countries that block things out know about proxy servers and the thousands of other things online that allow you to access pornography and anything else you want in an anonymous way?

Seems like a massive waste of time and effort to block something that people with a small understanding of computers can get around very easily.

Oh they probably know, I just don't think they genuinely care.

Back when I lived in Kuwait they had porn sites normally blocked, but I'd still be able to go to any site I wanted to using proxy servers. All the "blocking" garbage is just for show, so that they'd tell religious people "oh hey look we're doing something about it!". All they're doing is blocking porn sites from people who don't know about proxy servers, so essentially just people who live under a rock or are too old for the internet. Everybody else gets to watch porn in Kuwait normally, and I'm pretty sure that's the case in China as well.

 

[stevefox1200]

Surprised by the lack of puns in this thread

I tried to think of something good but I got nothing

Please forgive me everyone

 

[Trublez]

'Cleaning the Web 2014' haha what a joke.

 

[Boo Radley]

I'm torn. While I hate a Big Bad Government looking over everyone's shoulder, pornography is one of the worst things mankind has ever invented. It not only hurts those involved, but drastically affects societal attitudes, hurting people who don't even watch it.

It's tragic when you live in a day and age when the unpopular viewpoint is supported by facts and the popular viewpoint is supported by "LOLz- porn is teh shittzzz!! FAP FAP FAP!!!!" Sadly, the latter view is also what I have noticed college professors in the social sciences sharing with their students. Intellectuals, eh?

If watching a bit of porn makes you go out and hurt others, there is something seriously wrong with you to begin with. Sick and tired of people trying to excuse their action by blaming it on stupid things. "Oh, it wasn't my fault, I ran someone other, it's GTA's, it's not my fault I raped that girl, I had been watching porn" etc etc