It's upsetting how western voices wouldn't matter in this discourse but I hope progressives in china will be able to campaign against this and make porn legal and commercially available or atleast present under a government organisation
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As much as I like to stan China for how they treat their billionaires and corporations, this is wrong. Sex work, in all its forms, is a valid, lucrative, and old line of work across the world. China is one of the most developed nations on Earth. They should also be the most progressive when it comes to this. Smh
it's valid to support some policies in some places without it making you a fervant supporter of everything that state does.
like I love how china actually invests in infrastructure, including housing and public transit and walkable cities.
I dont like what they do in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
They should also be the most progressive
The tankie government that denies Tiananmen Square doesn't have much regard for individual rights?
More like porn is illegal, just like in half the US. Give it two years we'll hear much worse about gay erotica artists being arrested in Texas and held without trial
just like in half the US
It isn't.
My state literally made pornhub illegal today please stop doing apologia and/or propaganda
China has always banned porn, if that is an issue or you oppose this woman being arrested for producing pornography then you should probably take efforts in america to prevent these exact same laws from being passed in your state (something that is already being done whether you choose to pay attention or not)
Arguing against anything I said wouldve been more productive and more interesting than promoting an abject lie that american states arent currently implementing the same authoritarian restrictions on legally produced pornography as the CCP with the list of states doing so ever expanding.
You're welcome to sleepwalk into authoritarianism but I will continue to call it out in spite of people who choose to plug their ears or derail the conversation away from the growing surveillance state in america. Americans cant influence Chinese internal politics, so when something is wrong there they should look at what they can do to prevent the same thing from occurring here instead of just braying about how bad china is for doing what we will be doing within the decade. Why even come here just to be pithy and wrong?
My state literally made pornhub illegal today
They did not. Words mean things. Answered here. Cite the law: you can't.
please stop doing apologia and/or propaganda
Right back at you: twisting the word illegal. I disapprove of the dumb online ID regulations, too: still not illegal. US isn't throwing pornographers & erotica writers in jail.
China has always banned porn
You said it. Not banned in USA.
You’re welcome to sleepwalk into authoritarianism
Chinese government is already there.
US still has a long way to "catch up". They're not
- sending Ughyers to reeducation camps or forced sterilizations
- organ harvesting the Falun Gong
- suppressing discussion of the times they've sent tanks against civilians.
The Chinese doesn't care about individual rights & never has: it's baked into the formula. They always put tankie ideology first, the individual later, sometimes far later.
States are banning pornhub and making websites require ID checks. They're banning porn.
That's not illegalizing it & it's not throwing erotica writers in jail. Don't believe me? Cite the laws. It's legal.
Weirdly they are more progressive when it comes to prostitution; prostitution isnt illegal, but soliciting it is.
You know this is bad when even Hexbear isn't defending it. https://hexbear.net/post/5403841
LGBT rights are human rights, everywhere.
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Yea... porn in illegal in China, erotic stories is just "word-porn" basically, this is nothing new.
This is what conservatism does. Same in China, same in the Deep South of the US (the only reason why porn is still legal-ish in the south is because of the first amendment, but the constitution is being eroded so that might not last long)
Conservatism is a disease that many countries still have. Take a look at this map:
Porn being legal is mostly only a thing in the "western world".
Even if China has a liberal democracy like in the west, people would still elect conservatives. See democratic countries like: India, South Korea, Ukraine, Phillippines, Malaysia, they all made porn illegal despite being democratic.
I'm cisgender and probably straight (or asexual not sure tbh), but if I was trans or gay, my parents would've disowned me for being "mentally ill" and gave me zero inheritance. I mean, even currently with depression, my parents are already thinking about leaving me out of the will for being a "useless eater", imagine if I was LGBT. For context, parents are from Mainland, PRC, currently we're in the US, they are conservstives that just thinks everyone who's is depressed is either "faking it" or crazy psychopaths and/or "useless eaters". I hate my life.
Yeah India is a striking example of a place where porn really NEEDS to be legal. Way too many horny single men there.
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Why am I reminded of one old comic? It went like this:
(Scientists on an Antarctic base)
Scientist 1: (Finishes talking about something normal)
Scientist 2: (Disheveled and visibly unhinged) "Well none of that shit matters. Do you know what happened to my stack of Playboy magazines?"
Scientist 1: (Now also suddenly disheveled and visibly unhinged, whips out a knife) "They're mine now!"
Scientist 2: (Also whips out a knife) "Oh yeah?"
Scientist 1: "Yeah! What are you gonna do about it?"
(Altercation ensues)
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