Chinese Authorities And The Internet.

[sandyRoe]

Does their censorship only cover areas they see as potential threats to their power or does it extend to areas such as pornography?

[237SJ]

I don`t know but you can`t get Youtube, Facebook or Google in China (although I seem to remember getting a sort of Chinese version of Google)

[Old_Geezer]

It does seem a bum deal for those wanting to keep abreast of affairs.

[AB Editor]

Meet the Chinese ‘censors’ who watch 700 pornographic movies every week: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/14/meet-the-chinese-censors-who-watch-700-pornographic-movies-every-week/

[sandyRoe]

What a terrible job. It would be bound to give them a deeply twisted picture of human relationships.

[retrocop]

No wonder his eyes ended up like that.

[retrocop]

A late colleague of mine (my best man) served on the vice squad at Paddington for a while. He and his Sergeant had obtained warrants and confiscated 1,000s of Blue Movies from several seedy shops on the manor.
These were 8mm or Super 8. None of your videos or DVDs then.This was before the CPS existed so it was a police prosecution and investigation.
All the films had to be scrutinised very carefully. The criteria for what is obscene and what is not did give a frightening amount of leeway in those days (70s) and those submitted as evidence had to contain the relevant legal requirements to make them become obscene. After several weeks in a locked room taking turns to plough through the evidence the Sergeant asked to be relieved of his duties with the vice squad.What he had been viewing on a daily basis had seriously interfered with the physical side of his marriage.

[sandyRoe]

I don't know how decent people could bear to look at child pornography in the line of duty. It would make me sick.

[retrocop]

Who else would you have do the dirty work sandy. There is a lot of other dirty work out there that decent people have to deal with. Shovelling dismembered bodies into hessian sacks after jumping in front of an underground train springs to mind amongst many.

[sandyRoe]

I know such jobs need to be done. I'm glad it was never my lot to do them.