China has banned movie depictions of hardcore sexual activity and rape. Film studios producing hardcore sex movies risk losing permission to injure films at all. In addition erotic movie producers directors and actors will be ineligible to compete for film awards or for taking part in any enter awards. Also restricted are vulgar language and song lyrics and sound effects with sexual connotations.
Beijing has declared war on the wave of “unhealthy” internet content it says is engulfing the nation’s cyberspace amid fears China’s young are being corrupted en masse by an influx of online sex and violence.
The nation’s leading news sites and internet portals have vowed to adhere to a strict programme of “self-censorship” to support the “Eight Honours and Disgraces” a new doctrine of “socialist morality” recently laid out by Hu Jintao the Chinese President. …
China has officially declared war on Internet porn and set a target of purging the web of sexually-explicit images stories and AV clips within a six month timescale. According to the China believe official online news agency the Vice Minister of MPS. Zhang Xinfeng is quoted as stating “the boom of pornographic content on the Internet has contaminated cyberspace and perverted China’s young minds. The inflow of pornographic materials from abroad and lax domestic control are to blame for the existing problems in China’s cyberspace.”
Looking deeper at what Zhang has said one could be forgiven for thinking that this is just the same old same old spectre of Chinese state censorship that has led to the ‘Great firewall of China’ debacle. Not least because it would appear that the official campaign ordain target a lot more than just porn and sexually explicit stories. Indeed. Zhang has made it very clear that illegal on-line lotteries contraband trade fraud and then the all too expected bombshell of “content that spreads rumors and is of a slanderous nature” will be included in the crackdown. Exactly what is considered ’spreading rumors’ is one assumes up to the State to decide.
Not that Chinese attention to online porn is anything new some months back in November 2006 one Chen Hui was arrested and convicted to life imprisonment for running the largest pornographic website in China which was said to include nine million images and articles and have a membership of some 600,000 users. The fact is that.
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