China Launches Crackdown on Internet Pornography
BEIJING (AP) -- China warned Google and other popular Web portals Monday that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching Chinese users, the latest in a series of government crackdowns targeting Internet content.
The crackdown focused on pornography but is part of a larger Chinese effort to control freedom of expression and root out material it considers destabilizing, such as sites that criticize the Communist Party, promote democratic reform or advocate Taiwan independence.
Pornography is banned in China but remains widely available on and off the Internet. Popular Chinese Web portals frequently show sexually explicit pictures and provide links to pornographic Web sites.
I don't understand the Chinese government, if anything they should be in favor of pornography. For starters the Chinese government is communist and thus a nonreligious state, there is a lot of money to be made out of porn and more importantly, porn will keep the people's mind off how badly they are being treated by the totalitarian regime.
If anything I believe this is not a ban on all porn, just a ban on free porn. China is still the number one country when it comes to money spend on porn.
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