Where China has been effective in weeding out internet porn, they have no such luck with its mobile counterpart. The always informative Kathee Brewer reports the snags that China's anti-porn campaign has to disentangle itself from in dealing with porn on mobile devices. At this point, it is only sheer will of those supporting the cause that seems to push this agenda forward.
Tom Hymes doesn't outwardly editorialize but he can sneak in his two cents' worth in his article about China's wholesale shuttering of porn sites in Chinese cyberspace. So far, their handiwork had led them to close down 13,000 porn sites and arrested 5,400 suspects related to porn in China.
Sometimes we tend to forget that the porn industry doesn't just operate in the US and Europe. There are also porn producers in far off countries like the Philippines and Vietnam. Though they operate on the same set of rules, they also have to contend with more stringent moralistic anti-porn laws. What happened to its owners would not happen to anyone here in the US.
Dennis Taylor reports the alarming fervor of a group of Christian groups who formed prayer rallies in and around Los Angeles against porn and the industry. Even the Playboy Mansion wasn't spared. What was even more curious is that the group turned out to be a doomsday cult preparing for the Earth's supposed end of 2012.
You know what the problem with legislation in governments? They create laws that sound good in paper but never good in reality. Take this new anti-porn laws in Indonesia, for instance. The law supposedly persecutes any form of pornographic material. In order to put teeth into the law, they have arrested a bunch of exotic dancers and the club manager where they work.
Okay, I have watched prior episodes of now defunct Big Brother Australia and what happens in that show is worthy enough for a few scenes in porn. Things can get raunchy at a drop of a hat! And to think that's free television. So I am not surprised when something like this happens.
And world government's wave of porn censorship continues. This time it's in India. Sue Denim writes an article about an amendment of their Information Technology Act that prohibits the publication of sexually explicit material in newsstands and in the Internet.
We will protect you from rumors and misleading information. We will protect you from the evils of anarchy and immorality. We will make the Internet safe for you by deciding which things you should see, and how much. We will take to ourselves the burden of filtering out information that you do not need, will not use, and will bring you harm.
A highly regarded scholar who frequently slams porn's ill effects conducted a study on how porn really affects adults. And what did they found? Porn does not have ill effects on adults. You know what else? Porn is actually good for people. You want some more? The more porn you watch, the more you get its benefits.
In what may be a hilarious turn of events, the British government has discovered that their police force has been sneaking time watching internet porn during office hours. As the article lays out the number of people accessing inappropriate sites per department, you could almost hear Sue Denim cackling as she writes this article.
