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Originally Posted by missmacabre
(Post 666849)
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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by Kemal
(Post 666849)
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.
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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.
