Olivia Munn’s lawyers descend on comic retailer over fan-service funnybook
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 [...]
In China, Porn Sites Pay You!
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 [...]
Dragon Ball: You’re Outta There!
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 [...]
U.N. declares war on tentacle rape
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” [...]
AT&T picks fight with 4chan – this will not end well
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 [...]
China to Chinese citizens: ‘Please feel free to censor yourselves…’
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 [...]
Wired on Christopher Handley lolicon plea
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 [...]
China Censors Obama Speech; No Surprise There
Unsurprisingly, China’s news outlets censored Barack Obama’s inauguration speech for mentioning communism and countries where dissenting viewpoints are repressed.
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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.
China hates pr0n – and uppity citizens
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 [...]
China to Shut Down Google
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 [...]
Cambodian monks cry foul on Buddhist rock-opera
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 [...]
China Movie Blacklist Watch: The Dark Knight
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 [...]
Indian Moms Say ‘No’ to Shin-chan
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 [...]
Manilia court upholds ban on documentary about deposed Philippine president
When most people think of deposed Philippine presidents, at least here in the U.S., they think of Ferdinand Marcos. Of course, Marcos is but one rung in an entire rogues gallery of colorful (read: villainous) Philippine heads-of-state. A more recent example is Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada, a former actor turned politician whom it was said got [...]
‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ the ‘most racist anti-Asian film in American cinematic history’?
Is Mickey Rooney a thoughtless purveyor of racial stereotypes? Anyone who’s seen Blake Edwards’ Breakfast at Tiffany’s might think so, and I’m disinclined to disagree…but to call the film the ‘most racist anti-Asian film in American cinematic history’ is surely a bit of hyperbole.
CAPITAL (Council of Asian Pacific Islanders Together for Advocacy and Leadership), an [...]
