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Posted on Jan 1, 2010
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Porn titles line the shelves at a store in China.

A highly publicized campaign against Internet pornography swept China in 2009, with 5,394 people arrested and 4,186 criminal investigations conducted against the circulation of “smutty and lewd pictures”—a fourfold increase in smut cases compared with 2008.

Reuters:

The Chinese government has run a highly publicized campaign against what officials said were banned smutty and lewd pictures overwhelming the country’s Internet and threatening the emotional health of children.

Chinese police said late on Thursday the crackdown on Internet pornography had brought 5,394 arrests and 4,186 criminal case investigations in 2009—a fourfold increase in the number of such cases compared with 2008.

The announcement on the Ministry of Public Security’s website (www.mps.gov.cn) said the drive would deepen in 2010.

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By MvGuy, January 3, 2010 at 9:05 pm Link to this comment

“A highly publicized campaign against Internet pornography swept China in 2009, with 5,394 people arrested…..... W0W… 5394… out of ?? 1.3 Billion, Gaads, that’s one person in two hundred thousand Chinese…  Not exactly a stampede..

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By Guitarzeroh, January 3, 2010 at 10:12 am Link to this comment
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Jim Yell is correct.
As for the porn, follow the disfunctional families and drugs/pimps; some convicts, mob, masons, baptists, lds cults… they’ll all show up there. Child pornographers, users and pushers should be executed.

Granted it’s legal and fine for consenting adults to tape and get off on themselves; make a buck in exchange online. It makes no sense though for kids to have access in private or public.

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By Gmonst, January 2, 2010 at 4:15 pm Link to this comment

Controlling access to sexual pleasure is one of the oldest tools for leveraging control of a population.  Sexually satisfied humans don’t make very good worker drones.

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By Jim Yell, January 2, 2010 at 7:28 am Link to this comment
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That is strange news I didn’t even know that China was awash in Abrahamic Religions? I guess dirty pictures are much more damaging than the government putting people in jails, for demanding justice or just signing a petition.

Remember all those Republi-cons that brought us China relations have made millions and millions selling out American jobs, sending factories and capital to China, so they could avoid environment and worker protections in this country, unfortunately many a supposed Democrats have done the same thing. Your elected representitives at work.

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