China’s crusade against all things fun has resulted in the shutdown of 60,000 porn sites.
Awwww Man
OK, your attempt to keep your population under control, added to a medieval preference for boy children, has resulted in a massive gender …
One wonders what the Chinese government felt was so galling about the original release of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King that it was held up for 2 years. If Chinagame is correct, it mainly looks to be …
(Note: the following piece contains graphic descriptions of sex and non-consensual sexual acts. If you find that sort of thing is offensive then consider yourself forewarned.)
So – did you hear there’s this game out there that lets you …
My fascination with Olvia Munn is well-documented here at YM, so you can imagine my dismay at a developing legal imbroglio involving the aforementioned host of G4′s Attack of the Show and comic book retailer Heavy Ink. The dispute in …
Actually the government pays you to find porn sites so they can block them.
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The winner of a contest to report porn turned in 32 sites. He was motivated by his own tragic history:
“In the …
A parent finds that their kid is reading Dragon Ball and that there is nudity and sex jokes in it. Parent sflips their lid, school library pulls manga etc, etc.
Now, I would let a 9-year-old read Dragon Ball, because …
I can’t read a lick of this, but Sankaku Complex says that the U.N. is calling on a resolution requesting that Japan ban all erotic media that feature rape.
Calling Japan’s treatment of women “inadequate” and “regrettable,” CEDAW (Convention on …
AT&T has placed itself in the dubious position of policing net traffic to 4chan’s infamous /b/ message board. Why they did so is predictable, but I’m amazed on two fronts: one, that they would place themselves in a position …
The ping-pong match between Chinese authorities and free-speech n’er-do-wells continues as China now claims that censorship web-filtering apps will not be forcibly activated, but will be shipped gratis with all new computers sold on the mainland. That way, users can …
Wired posted a brief analysis of the obscenity charges brought against U.S. manga collector Christopher Handley, who was arrested for trafficking in ‘obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children’, aka smutty manga. AnaKhouri has blogged about this in …
Unsurprisingly, China’s news outlets censored Barack Obama’s inauguration speech for mentioning communism and countries where dissenting viewpoints are repressed.
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Luckily, our buddies the Chinese Internet bloggers did their best to get the full speech translated and posted.
Dissenting viewpoints …
I read this piece over at MSNBC on Friday, but didn’t have time to properly blog it until today – apparently China has been using pornography (or, what they consider to be potentially salacious material, at any rate) as an …
