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Productivity Losses Imminent

by $8 blue check mistermix|  July 23, 20108:11 am| 12 Comments

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China has stopped censoring porn sites, not that they were ever that serious about it.

In related news, Google apparently knuckled under to the Chinese and re-opened the censored, mainland version of its search engine.

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  1. 1.

    Xenos

    July 23, 2010 at 8:19 am

    The Chinese might be turning Japanese?

  2. 2.

    BR

    July 23, 2010 at 8:20 am

    They’re just trying to deal with their gender demographic imbalance.

  3. 3.

    jon

    July 23, 2010 at 8:22 am

    The loss of the porn restrictions explains China’s new place as the world’s largest energy user, especially since the American porn industry has produced a surplus of Asian porn for at least the last thirty years. And they said our manufacturing had all gone overseas!

  4. 4.

    Keith G

    July 23, 2010 at 8:31 am

    Chinese Porn.

    Pleasure yourself and you’re frisky again thirty minutes later.

  5. 5.

    Todd

    July 23, 2010 at 8:53 am

    So I was looking on this page…

    David Webb, who was the Tea Partier most famous for going on Face The Nation and denouncing the racist elements in his party, will be at that conference with Andrew Breitbart, and we all know what he’s famous for.

  6. 6.

    gnomedad

    July 23, 2010 at 9:00 am

    What, no tie-in to China’s one-child policy and the preference for male babies?

  7. 7.

    demimondian

    July 23, 2010 at 9:08 am

    Um, mistermix? Google has not “reopened the censored, mainland version” of its site The http://www.google.cn site contains no content — all that it contains is a large button which redirects to the .hk site. The only change here is that the .cn site no longer returns a redirect to ..hk directly.

  8. 8.

    ed

    July 23, 2010 at 9:10 am

    Google apparently knuckled under to the Chinese

    Don’t be evil…unless the money’s good.

  9. 9.

    General Stuck

    July 23, 2010 at 9:17 am

    Censorship of porn is why I turned away from communism in the first place.

  10. 10.

    gnomedad

    July 23, 2010 at 9:27 am

    @BR:
    Oops, stepped on your meme there. Sorry.

  11. 11.

    demimondian

    July 23, 2010 at 9:27 am

    Having reread the AP story, I can see why you might have been misled by it. The AP story says “Google’s China site now includes a tab for users to click to be switched to Hong Kong.” That’s (largely) true as far as it goes, but misses the fact that the Chinese site contains a GIF which redirects to the HK site and no search box.

    Go there yourself; that’s what you’ll see. Alternatively, if you go to any of the contemporaneous stories about this from a month ago, you’ll find a far more complete description of the change.

  12. 12.

    mentalfugue

    July 23, 2010 at 11:02 am

    Yes, I live in China and just double checked… demimondian is basically correct.

    As mentioned, there is no functioning search on http://www.google.cn. After you click the central area you are directed to the Hong Kong site (if you click one of the few links at the bottom you go to parts still under the .cn domain such as the music site). Once in the HK site, if you do a search for say… Tiananmen Square in Chinese the entire page is blocked. Presumably because Google is still delivering “inappropriate” (uncensored) links.

    Yeah, the Chinese official’s statement that Google is now following the law by not having any “inappropriate” links is true, but that is because it returns NO search responses on the .cn domain.

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