Volcel jokes aside, that's unfortunate.
Overall, I do think China is on the right track. but they def. have their issues with trying to legislate morality a little too much.
I don't think Gianna Michaels/hentai is going to inspire the populace to take up arms in a capitalist revolution.
As someone that lives in China, I can tell you that you can easily find porn on the Chinese internet without a VPN, you just need to know how to search. The biggest difference between China and the West is that in China you can't watch the videos directly on a website, you can only download them
很黄很暴力
And I'm glad you guys still can, I just wish the official policy was different so it would be even easier/more convenient.
What social good would that serve?
It's just getting rid of a pointless restriction on a silly thing. Porn being freely available wouldn't be a social disservice if that's what you're implying.
From the sound of it, it's already pretty freely available.
Then the policy in place is even more pointless then, no?
They don't seem to think so.
Well maybe the Chinese government isn't 100% infallible with only laws that are completely necessary.
They're not but I don't think this is one of those cases.
If it's pointless, then you're angry at an immaterial ideal rather than the material reality of the citizens themselves. You're objecting, as an outsider, to something of no consequence. People who live there experience the material conditions, so you're just vaguely gesticulating on suppositions and hypotheticals. As a Marxist-Leninist, I hereby banish you to the :gulag:
US "freedom" brainwashing has gotten the best of us, comrade. Material conditions are what affect people the most
I just think it's silly to ban grown adults from freely watching other grown adults fuck.
Prove it :shrug-outta-hecks:
not being a social disservice is not the same thing as serving the public good
so, what good would that serve?
What good is there to pointlessly ban something?
People wanna get off and watch people fuck, I say let em' blow off some steam.
the question is poorly asked, there is inherently no point to a pointless thing
obviously they want to attempt to restrict either the consumption of pornography or its manufacture, whether that's because they believe doing so will achieve their population growth aims or because they think it's socially maladaptive or something, but the reason is manifestly not "for no reason"
if you're so curious, i'd suggest looking into the whys. it's an interesting question; i just don't necessarily know that i'd take such a strong position as you have when i don't have the slightest clue why something was enacted
Obviously there a reason, but based on the history of anti-pornography bans throughout world history, odds are very high that that reason is not based in actual logic.
perhaps so, but i think you'll find that what is deemed logical is far from universally agreed upon. and "high odds" means nothing, aside from "i feel very strongly that this is the case". you have already acknowledged that you don't understand the reasons behind it, so it smacks of arrogance to simply claim that you know better without even investigating the situation
"no investigation, no etc etc" - jesus, maybe?