China Will Lift Ban On Playboy For Olympic Foreigners
Sadly, though, actual Chinese citizens won’t be able to buy the magazine. Just visiting athletes and foreigners.
All pornographic material is prohibited on the mainland but a temporary exception could be made for the Games, according to the biggest importer of foreign publications in the country.
“Our law forbids Playboy and we should obey this, but we can’t rule out the possibility that it might make its debut. There might be a demand for it (from athletes or visitors) during the Games,” said Liang Jianrui, vice-president of China National Publications Import and Export Corporation, which will manage the nine magazine-selling kiosks sanctioned by Olympic organizers BOCOG during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Sounds pretty dumb, no? But really, how is this any different than our politicians telling us we can’t use tobacco? Or eat certain foods they consider to be unhealthy?
It’s not. The nanny state is just another form of totalitarianism. Creeping, insidious totalitarianism, but totalitarianism just the same.
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