China's censors move to stamp out sex and violence online

Don't give "us" ideas...

Just you wait, in a few years time you'll upload a video of some kittens nomming to Youtube but there will be a six month "processing" delay and a £500 fee while the video gets sent off to the BBFC for certification!

Actually what will really happen is that by then Google will have introduced a special BBFC certification algorithm which will only take a few seconds and will be free to use, but it will erroneously rate your kitten nomming film R18 due to suggestive scenes!

You just know they will try this or something like it in order to "protect" our children...

A better idea

To prevent their children being exposed to the horrors of the internet, perhaps prudes (sorry - "concerned parents") can have their children's eyelids cauterised together, thereby ensuring they're never exposed to anything that may allow them to develop into normal human fucking beings.

The parents most receptive to this type of "child-protection" seem to be the ones who have no idea about basic computer use - the ones to whom the internet is some sort of back alley, where their children *must* have their hand held at all times - and it's the internet-savvy children of these parents who are usually the best at hiding the porn.

“scenes of bloody violence”

Tiananmen Square, anyone?

Much state violence here (UK) is bad enough to be hidden from public view by the media, presumably "voluntarily" rather than by law, but the result is the same: general public ignorance.

I suspect the effect will be the same as with other forms of prohibition. The commodity "real" news will rise in perceived value, be supplied by the unscrupulous, and be of an inferior quality to that which would otherwise be obtained legally.

"the Grass Mud Horse"?

If that has anything to do with sexual content the mind absolutely boggles.

No sex please we are Chinese.

What a dismal place for being one of the millions of beta males. No chance of being an authoritarian leader. Have terrible odds finding a partner with the Girl/Boy ratio and now they can't even have a decent wank over some porn.

All that sexual frustration is bound to end in tears and a nice violent repressive society a la the Arab world.

Well at least...

... they're not talking about making adults opt-in before they're permitted to access adult content.

No, that's an entirely different repressive regime...

Phil doesn't know the half of it !

If I remember correctly, the dastardly Chinese communists were the protagonists of Arthur Charles Clarke's short story «I remember Baylon», in which satellites were sent up to pump pornography into the homes of unsuspecting, innocent residents of the US in order to destroy their moral fibre. What a vile plot ! Of course, history didn't proceed in quite that fashion and the US turned out to be fairly good at producing its own pornography (I believe I first read the story in Playboy in 1960), but it is ironic that the Chinese are trying to protect their onw public from soemthing which might well have been - had reality followed the script of Sir Clarke's fertile imagination more closely - their own fault ! Perhaps they will learn from the US and include «parental controls» with every device that connects to the internet....

Henri