ChinaGeeks has translated<\/strong><\/a> a blog post by Han Han about the recent order banning “vulgar” text messages:<\/p>\n

\nAside from sending pornographic texts to males, beginning tomorrow, I will also be sending sexual harassment [text messages] to females. This is all in the name of making good on the government\u2019s dereliction of duty. I strongly support the government policy, but they haven\u2019t told us what the definition of \u201cpornographic\u201d and \u201cinappropriate\u201d are. The relevant government department should publish in the People\u2019s Daily and read aloud on the TV news a list of the [banned] obscene and pornographic words. For exmaple, on the news, the female announcer could say that \u201cthe relevant department has initiated a stern crackdown on pornographic messages and the vulgar-ization of texting. Words to be banned include: Vagina,\u201d then the male announcer says \u201cpenis\u201d\u2026that would be a truly responsible [way of handling it].<\/p>\n

…Twenty years ago, China used the term \u201choodlum\u201d \uff3b\u6d41\u6c13\uff3dto label a group of people it wanted to eliminate. After sentencing and more sentencing, execution and more execution, we\u2019ve come to today, and the vocabulary has changed [from “hoodlum”] to \u201cvulgar\u201d, they want to eliminate you because you\u2019re vulgar. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time thinking about the people who judge whether or not others are vulgar, where does their \u2018high culture\u2019 come from? For example, spending 100 RMB on a prostitute is vulgar, spending 100,000 RMB on an entertainer is high culture; if a person looks at a pornographic picture it\u2019s vulgar, if a person looks at a classified government document it\u2019s high culture; if a person buys a toy gun it\u2019s vulgar, if a person uses a real gun to kill two people [probably a reference to this case] it\u2019s high culture; if a person plays World of Warcraft it\u2019s vulgar, if a person \u2018plays\u2019 with models it\u2019s high culture. Of course, no one can say for sure [what’s vulgar and what isn’t], and as soon as you say for sure, you can\u2019t do whatever you want. To prevent against a day when I might suddenly become a \u2018vulgar person\u2019, I will take the initiative, and become one now. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more about Han Han and about the anti-vulgarity campaign via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ChinaGeeks has translated a blog post by Han Han about the recent order banning “vulgar” text messages: Aside from sending pornographic texts to males, beginning tomorrow, I will also be sending sexual harassment [text messages] to females. This is all in the name of making good on the government\u2019s dereliction of duty. I strongly support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,100,6],"tags":[7678,7733,834],"class_list":["post-50602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-revolution","category-politics","category-sci-tech","tag-anti-vulgarity-campaign","tag-han-han","tag-text-messaging","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n