Monday, September 06, 2004
Punishments to match the "crime?"
The "People's" one-party dictatorship of China has "intensified its battle against Internet and moble phone pornography by threatening distributors with life in prison."
Curious that religious fundementalists, some sects of feminism, and socialists all share a disdain for pictures of naked people.
In the recent Chinese version of such nonsense, here's the real clincher: "A pornographic Web site that had been clicked on more that 250,000 times would be considered a 'very severe' case that could warrant a life sentence for its producers..." Meaning; the more popular something is to private citizens, the more the state will punish it.
China is obviously still a follower of the Socialist worldview.
If you don't like "pornography," drugs, McDonald's, Microsoft, ...or the color blue -- don't buy them.
Now if they could only get those "pornographic" thoughts out of our heads that we harbor every day (minute?).
Curious that religious fundementalists, some sects of feminism, and socialists all share a disdain for pictures of naked people.
In the recent Chinese version of such nonsense, here's the real clincher: "A pornographic Web site that had been clicked on more that 250,000 times would be considered a 'very severe' case that could warrant a life sentence for its producers..." Meaning; the more popular something is to private citizens, the more the state will punish it.
China is obviously still a follower of the Socialist worldview.
If you don't like "pornography," drugs, McDonald's, Microsoft, ...or the color blue -- don't buy them.
Now if they could only get those "pornographic" thoughts out of our heads that we harbor every day (minute?).
