Chinese mind control

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Internet pornography is all in the mind. Sure it's unrealistic and degrading to women, but all attempts to weed out the extreme porn have not worked. And it goes against human freedom to completely eradicate such expressions of natural love, whether they be artistic or cheesy. But the dictators in China have other ideas. Not content with the mind control they exercise on political views, the Chinese authorities are cracking down on Internet smut. Their Ministry of Education has now required that primary and secondary schools make regular inspections of school websites and install software filters on students' school computers.



In addition, the announcement said students should be taught not to make or spread lewd content online, not to enter profitable Internet cafes, not to access websites with lewd content and not to play lewd cyber games. Some teenagers suggested that the Chinese mind control campaign is as futile as lighting a candle in bright sun-shine, because they could have fun at Internet cafés. Wang Tao, a secondary school student who had just rushed out from a small hidden Internet café on Jintai Road, Beijing, told the Global Times that his classmates seldom use school computers to surf the Web. "We play World of Warcraft. It's impossible to play on the school's computers. So we play the game here," he said.