Anti-Porn and Clean the Web 2014 Campaign
by Tienchi Martin-Liao / May 7, 2014 /
Nothing new in the East
Photograph by Ren Hang, who has been classified as a ‘pornographer’ by Chinese authorities.
The Chinese authority can be crowned World Champion of launching campaigns out of political motives. It has inherited Mao Zedong’s spirit of mass movement that was used to strike the so-called “bull ghost and snake demon” (meaning “evil intellectuals”) in the 50s and 60s. Mao predicted that every six or seven years those evil demons would jump out and disrupt the empire’s peace. Today his descendants follow the doctrine, but mobilize the campaigns even more frequently.
In April the State Internet Information Office, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Public Security decided that, from mid-April to November this year, a nationwide “Cleaning the Web 2014” campaign of “anti-pornography, strike illegal publications” will be launched as a special action.
