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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsForbidden fruit: China bans ‘erotic’ banana-eating live streams
As part of China's crackdown on 'inappropriate' content online, live-streaming videos of people eating bananas 'erotically' have been banned, state media has reported. | YOUTUBE
Bananas may be Chinas new forbidden fruit at least online.
As part of the governments crackdown on inappropriate content online, Chinese live-streaming video services have banned people from filming themselves while eating bananas erotically, state media has reported.
New regulations mean hosts of live-streaming services are now being required to monitor their output 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Chinas state-run CCTV news reported last week. While standards have yet to be fixed, hosts of Web TV shows are prohibited from eating bananas seductively in front of the camera.
The move comes after Chinas Culture Ministry on April 14 announced an investigation of popular live-broadcast websites for allegedly providing content that contains pornography or violence and encourages viewers to break laws and harms social morality.
CCTV reported Thursday that the sites being probed had tightened control of their most popular hosts, which it said were predominately attractive women showing their cleavage.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/08/asia-pacific/offbeat-asia-pacific/forbidden-fruit-china-bans-erotic-banana-eating-live-streams/#.Vzqu3NQrLMo
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Forbidden fruit: China bans ‘erotic’ banana-eating live streams (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
May 2016
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Hekate
(91,005 posts)1. I wonder what they'd make of the eating scene in the movie "Tom Jones"?!
I was young when that movie came out; but I thought my mother would pop a gusset she laughed so hard retelling that scene. Later on, I completely understood.
Skittles
(153,298 posts)2. I like to just gnash on it REALLY hard
makes the guys just SQUIRM
LostOne4Ever
(9,296 posts)3. That is absurd. What is next? Banning Potatoes?