Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Porn is porn in China when you make money

China's latest anti-porn campaign has stretched out to the educational BBS's, the only internet battle it cannot win, says Business Week. Defining what porn exactly is has always been tough, but the educational authorities seems to draw the line when money gets involved. Non commercial sex and communication between individuals does not seem to be at stake.
Business Week quotes an expert from an article in the China Daily:
According to Zhang, the Internet has 370 million sexually explicit websites, and Chinese can get to lots of them, despite the best efforts of the government. Says the China Daily: “Zhang, who has studied sex education for 16 years, said Web sites should cater to the needs of juveniles and improve their environment because 'it is impossible to block all the unhealthy information on the Internet.'"
The crackdown seems to be a rather symbolic one.

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