China is taking a major stand against pornography.
The Associated Press reports China is targeting popular online portals and major search engines, including Google. China's government accused Google and Baidu, the country's two most popular search engines, of not responding to notices from China's Internet police about providing links to pornography. The statement also targeted other search portals such as Sina and Sohu, saying sites that refuse to block pornographic material will be severely punished. Pat Trueman, special counsel for Alliance Defense Fund, believes China is doing the right thing. "We actually would have had the authority, I think, to do that in [America] or prosecute those who are facilitating that sort of thing," he contends. "But because there was such a delay in the prosecution of any pornography in the Clinton administration and even in the Bush administration currently, that will never be done here, I'm sure." Trueman was asked about the First Amendment rights of pornographers. "The First Amendment doesn't protect obscenity, which is hard-core pornography or child pornography," the attorney points out. "And most of the stuff people are accessing are child pornography or adult pornography." It remains to be seen what the incoming Obama administration will do in terms of prosecutions.
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