Chinese government cracks down on "overly entertaining" TV shows

Swiffness!

The Chinese Government has already banned the outlandish fantasies of time travel and the self-centered demands of boy bands, yet still the country teeters on the brink of catastrophic individual thought, with whole hours of the day being wasted on not strengthening social morality or praising the Communist Party. So the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television has issued an order to correct this looming cultural chaos by ordering the nation’s 34 satellite TV stations to begin phasing out all programs deemed ? or “overly entertaining”—specifically, shows that deal with “marital troubles and matchmaking, talent shows, game shows, variety shows, talk shows, and reality programming,” all of which could weaken the system with their frivolous focus on engendering happiness. That is what the fish ball is for.

The new edict now limits such programming to a mere nine programs a night between all the channels, only between the hours of 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., and calls for an expansion of “news propaganda” to fill the rest of the programming day with the glorious peals of its truth. It also offers a renewed promise to “resolutely oppose money worship, hedonism, and extreme individualism, and arduously correct bad tendencies such as abusing one's powers, fakery, unprincipled acts, and harming others for profit”—all the basic tenets of Western television, in other words, which is why the once-great capitalist empire continues to crumble, “entertaining” itself into ruin. And this extends to online culture as well, with the government also promising to ? down on Internet-based vulgarity including the “transmission of harmful information,” with three people having already been detained for “spreading rumors online”—a policy that would wipe out whole swaths of Internet publication in America, which is why we fail.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/chinese-government-cracks-down-on-overly-entertain,64124/

janklow

you also need to find an article about how their military is swelling up with fat kids

judahxulu

i mean its not like all that ? is improving the cultures where that ? is prevalent. not saying chinese govt propaganda is better but lets not act like they might not have good reasons for not wanting part of what western culture does cause everything described that they banned can be summed up as just that.

Shuffington

Yo that sucks...

the ability to express your self is a vital skill. Those people will never learn how to innovate as long as there overseers are setting the agenda.

Swiffness!

judahxulu wrote: »

i mean its not like all that ? is improving the cultures where that ? is prevalent

HA! Hong Kong begs to differ.

janklow wrote: »

you also need to find an article about how their military is swelling up with fat kids

Wake up, America. Your global military dominance is on the decline, challenged ever more by a rising China. The People’s Republic now has hallmark American military technologies from stealth jets to armed drones. But now they’re eroding our lead in another area: fat people.

The state-controlled China Daily reported Wednesday that China’s National People’s Congress is loosening the standards for overweight recruits in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). China’s wanna-be soldiers can now super-size that order of szechuan beef without fear of discrimination as long they don’t tip the scales further than 25 percent of the normal weight requirements — a 5 percent uptick from last year.

The PLA’s greater tolerance for the love-handled likely stems from the necessity of recruiting within an ever wealthier — and chubbier — China. Its rapidly growing economy has birthed a new middle class. But as the poet says, mo’ money, mo’ problems. The country’s appetite has expanded with its wallet. One quarter of China’s population is now either overweight or obese, stuffing their faces with more of previously less-affordable dishes like meat. It’s a particular problem among school kids, the rising generation of potential army recruits. In Shanghai alone, obesity in elementary school children has gone up 25 percent over the past 10 years. McDonald’s franchises in China, it seems, are America’s secret weapon.


In that sense, the U.S. military rivalry with China can be seen as almost literally as a global clash of (rotund) giants. After all, they’re simply catching up to the our own military’s challenges with weight. Today, 27 percent of America’s young people between 17 and 24 are obese — entirely too fat to serve in the armed forces. That’s put American military recruiters in a bind. In 2009, the Army had to loosen up its weight requirements and put new flabby recruits on a weight-loss program in order to deal with the influx of the overweight.

Weight isn’t the only standard the PLA is bending on. The National People’s Congress has taken an opposite tack from the U.S. Army when it comes to tattoos. Whereas the U.S. Army is cracking down on neck ink, the PLA is now letting in more tatted troops. Chinese recruits can have face and neck tattoos as long as they keep them smaller than two centimeters.

So will a tattooed, plus-sized PLA be any less daunting of a threat to the Sino-panic crowd? Of course not. There’s just more of the Chinese military to fear now.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/battle-of-the-bulge/

with our battle hardened troops they won't stand a chance once we invade

janklow

Swiffness! wrote: »

In Shanghai alone, obesity in elementary school children has gone up 25 percent over the past 10 years. McDonald's franchises in China, it seems, are America's secret weapon.

USA USA USA

and good work, sir, you successfully found the article i was talking about.

chilly

Damn that kinda sucks. Is that china or japan that censors their porn?