China's Xi says internet must be "clean and righteous"

[TomSea]

China's Xi says internet must be "clean and righteous"
Thomson Reuters Foundation

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The internet must be "clean and righteous" and vulgar content must be resisted in the field of culture, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a meeting of senior propaganda officials, state media said on Wednesday.

The government has been tightening controls over internet content as part of what it says are efforts to maintain social stability, taking on "vulgar" and pornographic content as well as the unauthorised dissemination of news.

The moves come amid a broader clamp-down targeting online content from livestreams and blogs to mobile gaming, as the country's leaders look to tighten their grip over a huge and diverse cultural scene online popular with China's youth.

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[To-Whose-Benefit?]

We should not be trading with this authoritarian hell hole at all.

Without our money, our markets, it would collapse.

[Wingnut]

We should not be trading with this authoritarian hell hole at all.

Without our money, our markets, it would collapse.

The "clean and self righteous" globalists here on site don't cotton to that kinda talk. 

[Free Vulcan]

Funny how supposedly atheirst Commies always talk in religious and moralistic terms while being zealous at suppressing other religions. Don't like the competition I guess.

[Suppressed]

We should not be trading with this authoritarian hell hole at all.

Without our money, our markets, it would collapse.

Yes, a lot of people would die before their trade adjusted to the disruption.  Other countries would benefit a great deal from the vacuum we'd provide.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Yes, a lot of people would die before their trade adjusted to the disruption.  Other countries would benefit a great deal from the vacuum we'd provide.

Who? Where? I find your analysis to be hyperbole, pure and simple.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

The "clean and self righteous" globalists here on site don't cotton to that kinda talk.

@The Ghost

They're welcome to take both thumbs, their pie hole and another hole, and play switch.

[RoosGirl]

Right, because the Chinese are such righteous people; righteous people who think nothing of stealing and cloning technology that doesn't belong to them and selling it as original equipment.