One wonders what the Chinese government felt was so galling about the original release of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King that it was held up for 2 years. If Chinagame is correct, it mainly looks to be a bunch of aesthetic issues (apparently the Chinese don’t like undead dragons or randomly placed skulls). In any case, Chinese [...]

(Note: the following piece contains graphic descriptions of sex and non-consensual sexual acts. If you find that sort of thing is offensive then consider yourself forewarned.) So – did you hear there’s this game out there that lets you rape girls? Actually, ‘lets you rape girls‘ is a mischaracterization. The game, RapeLay (as in ‘rape lay‘ – for some reason [...]

My fascination with Olvia Munn is well-documented here at YM, so you can imagine my dismay at a developing legal imbroglio involving the aforementioned host of G4′s Attack of the Show and comic book retailer Heavy Ink. The dispute in question involves a book solicited by Heavy Ink entitled Celebrity Showdown Olivia Munn. Munn’s legal team is putting pressure on [...]

Actually the government pays you to find porn sites so they can block them. Surf Porn, Win Prizes! The winner of a contest to report porn turned in 32 sites. He was motivated by his own tragic history: “In the past, when I was in middle school, I used to get grades that were good enough to enter a really [...]

A parent finds that their kid is reading Dragon Ball and that there is nudity and sex jokes in it. Parent sflips their lid, school library pulls manga etc, etc. Now, I would let a 9-year-old read Dragon Ball, because I am cool like that. But I can see why parents (probably the same parents who freak out about In [...]

I can’t read a lick of this, but Sankaku Complex says that the U.N. is calling on a resolution requesting that Japan ban all erotic media that feature rape. Calling Japan’s treatment of women “inadequate” and “regrettable,” CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) formally demanded Japan end “human rights violations” against women by banning [...]

AT&T has placed itself in the dubious position of policing net traffic to 4chan’s infamous /b/ message board. Why they did so is predictable, but I’m amazed on two fronts: one, that they would place themselves in a position to censor net traffic and two, fucking with 4chan – possibly the largest hornet’s nest on the internet. Why’s it doing [...]

The ping-pong match between Chinese authorities and free-speech n’er-do-wells continues as China now claims that censorship web-filtering apps will not be forcibly activated, but will be shipped gratis with all new computers sold on the mainland. That way, users can keep the bad internets at bay voluntarily. Although the government says the software is aimed at blocking violence and pornography, [...]

Wired posted a brief analysis of the obscenity charges brought against U.S. manga collector Christopher Handley, who was arrested for trafficking in ‘obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children’, aka smutty manga. AnaKhouri has blogged about this in the past, so I won’t gild the lily so-to-speak, but Wired’s piece is worth checking out. The case began in [...]

Unsurprisingly, China’s news outlets censored Barack Obama’s inauguration speech for mentioning communism and countries where dissenting viewpoints are repressed. Article Luckily, our buddies the Chinese Internet bloggers did their best to get the full speech translated and posted. Dissenting viewpoints are still around in China, but like porn, it’s had to go a little more underground.

I read this piece over at MSNBC on Friday, but didn’t have time to properly blog it until today – apparently China has been using pornography (or, what they consider to be potentially salacious material, at any rate) as an excuse to bust heads amongst China’s uppity internet community. In some cases cracking down on porn is a show of [...]

China is planning to shut down Google because people can use it to find porn. Then they are going to kill God, beat the devil in a fiddle contest, steal Flava Flav’s clock and roundhouse-kick Chuck Norris in the face. None of which is real bloody likely. BBC Article Of course Chinese men need to look at porno! You know [...]

A Cambodian television network which broadcast a performance of the rock opera Where Elephants Weep was forced to abandon a repeat after monks in Phnom Penh complained about the content, claiming that they were ‘oppressed’. Oppressed? Really? By a rock opera ? Man, when did Cambodian monks become such pussies? Look, say what you want about Where Elephants Weep – [...]

Variety reports that the latest Batman film (The Dark Knight in case you’ve been living under a rock) won’t be released in China, due to ‘cultural sensitivites’. In other news, it’s been available on every street corner in Singapore since June. Grow a pair, China. Seriously. “Based on a number of pre-release conditions that are being attached to ‘The Dark [...]

Mommies in India have apparently decided that the anime Crayon Shin-chan is detrimental to their little precious’ behavior, so the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has banned it from TV. ANN Article Now, I wouldn’t want my kids to watch something like South Park (while SP is more sophisticated than Shin-chan, much of the potty-mouthed humor is in the same [...]