ohhh China

[Disease]

Fantastic....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-XC...eature=related

[Psycom5k]

Nice song, I have it playing in the background.

[Disease]

While I'm posting videos, no one here has probably heard this,,, awesome Aussie group...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCswb...eature=related

For all you old River Phoenix fans, this came out just after he died.

[missmacabre]

Thanks for getting wayyy off topic. Anyway...

The article says they want to "control and cleanse the negative effect these items have on society, and to prevent horror, violent, cruel publications from entering the market through official channels and to protect adolescents' psychological health."

So they are banning horror movies from being sold, period, not just bootlegs and porn. All because they think horror movies will be harmful to individuals.

[Psycom5k]

Which as I said before is BS, but what can we really do about it? I mean its china, its not like we can email our senator about it or something along those lines. Yeah I feel bad for the chinese people but its better them than me.

On a side note, now I think China's governments are run by bigger idiots than America's

[Disease]

When the Olympics were being held in Sydney, they shipped out (so to speak) a lot of Aboriganal to Adelaide bying them housing etc... also moving a lot of the homeless futher away from the city centre.

Glasgow have the commonwealth Games in I'm not sure what year, but they just got the nod, this is seriously the most littered city I have seen, I have no idea how they will make it look respectable.

[boxcutter]

sponsoring the olympics is a great way for a repressive government to appear all well-run and wholesome in the eyes of the world. I can't help but be reminded of the 1936 Berlin olympics. But who needs horror movies when you have public executions and live-in factory workers.

[Kemal]

China's internet access to the rest of the world comes through a small number of nodes, and it's easy for the government to block or monitor what's coming in and out. It was deliberately designed that way, quite the opposite of how the predacessor to the US internet came about actually.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by missmacabre

Thanks for getting wayyy off topic. Anyway...

The article says they want to "control and cleanse the negative effect these items have on society, and to prevent horror, violent, cruel publications from entering the market through official channels and to protect adolescents' psychological health."

So they are banning horror movies from being sold, period, not just bootlegs and porn. All because they think horror movies will be harmful to individuals.

Here's the thing, though. While this all seems completely and incredibly fascist from the outside (and believe me, it DOES), this is not only sensationalized, but the idea of China authorities actually being able to carry out and enforce this ruling is laughable.

I actually spent a year living in China. And, surprisingly, there isn't as much of a government presence as people from the West truly thinks there are. The money and manpower that it would take to physically enforce these rulings throughout the entirety of China - The cost would outweigh the benefit (people forget how incredibly HUGE China truly is). All businesses are privately owned, and the livelihood of most families is their family shop. Sometimes that shop is a pirated video shop. There is no way that China is actually going to shut down each and every private video shop.

This is what I think is going to happen, in reality: The big cities will crack down (Beijing, especially), meanwhile the towns will continue doing... whatever it is that they do (honestly, the US was up and arms about the ONE CHILD POLICY, but most of my students at the school had not one but multiple siblings - federal laws are just not enforced in the country side). Also, laws in China aren't like laws here. Bribery is rampant, and I guarantee that, just like the One Child Policy, as long as you're in a big city and have the money, you will be able to show and keep any movies with any sort of explicit content.

While I've been hearing about this ban for a while, I know better. The Western media is sensationalizing China as a fascist country because they are the enemy. That isn't to say that China is a democratic utopia (far from it), but, honestly, these rules and laws are not as enforced as Western culture believe them to be. There's simply not the manpower to actually enforce it.

Originally Posted by Kemal

China's internet access to the rest of the world comes through a small number of nodes, and it's easy for the government to block or monitor what's coming in and out. It was deliberately designed that way, quite the opposite of how the predacessor to the US internet came about actually.

Sadly, this is true, because the Internet is cheap and very easy to control.

Just try Googling "Tienanmen Square" while in the mainland. What comes up? Absolutely nothing. True story.