Sorry Chinese - you've got homework to do, and too much entertainment TV isn't going to help you do it.
I don't agree with the censorship on entertainment but after watching a few weeks of Chinese TV I will agree a lot of it is pretty tacky. Anyway a move like this will likely backfire as the Chinese will find ways around this. If the PRC wants to control the media they might find that Huxley works better than Orwell.
Last week they're curbing a two-year-old girl -- this week they're curbing television shows... keep progressing China.
These new proposed restrictions were all over every major news service in the world today, both the free non-Chinese press and the Chinese state-controlled media...I am con-fuciused. ...did they already cover this story up in China? Announced the restrictions, then erased the evidence?
I don't think you have to post like that on clutchfans - the PRC isn't monitoring this site for anti-government stuff so they shouldn't come torture you for stuff posted here. But on websites based in China...... you damn sure better post you agree with these new anti-everything laws if you know whats good for you.
Do we have any Chinese poster since Yao retired and the NBA locked out? 20 years from now there won't be a piece of information on Earth they don't have access to any time they want it. And frankly, how they are going to keep 500,000,000 mate-less young males from jackin' it 100 times a day when they get p*rn? Do they put salt peter in the water supply?
That's exactly why I do not believe the story. It remind me a lot of false news that have been all over youe media. I hope it is true though.
This makes no sense, even from a totalitarian POV. So they are limiting entertainment, because of the uprisings worldwide? So instead of watching Friends on TV, its citizens can talk about the uprisings worldwide? And how they are being censored instead? If anything, they should be upping the level of entertainment and fun, to numbify its citizens to the troubles of the world. Sounds like NFLX management running the country.
They are. And the main thing they're worried about is the weibo microblogging exposing them as chumps, not their mediocre TV, .... though that's by far the most amusing thing about the average netizen being sent to his room without his Jersey Shore.
After reading that press release and realizing they're actually declaring war on reality TV in particular, I'm a bit more willing to put my pitchfork down.
Now if the CCP cracks down all on the all the crappy sappy stuff that passes for popular music there I would be all for it.
This confirms it and thanks for delievering the good news. Just the nytimes link you posted did have a lot of usual anti-China misleading stuff in their "news". This regulation is about time. I've seen most Chinese supporting this move. Hope it will work.
lol Good luck fighting the internet China There's no way they can censor everything on the Chinese twitter/facebook and they know it. Too many people, too much information, fighting the internet is a losing battle for anyone. As far as TV goes, nobody watches it anyways so who cares. When I went back to China this summer all there is on TV are endless dramas and crappy series I don't even bother with it except the sports channel where they have NBA game marathons lol
