[izacus]

> In case people no longer remember, when China started to require websites to register for a license before be allowed to operate, it was for "protecting the children" too.

People don't remember because it didn't happen and the license wasn't about protecting the children. But it's so convenient to just blantantly lie on the internet nowadays, isn't it?

Just like the title of this article blatantly lies about "EU" doing something.

[card_zero]

One of you ought to find out what really did happen, and tell us. I can only do the lame thing and quote Wikipedia:

> China had no such legislation until 1997. That year, China's sole legislative body – the National People's Congress (NPC) – passed CL97, a law that deals with cyber crimes, which it divided into two broad categories: crimes that target computer networks, and crimes carried out over computer networks. Behavior illegal under the latter category includes, among many things, the dissemination of pornographic material, and the usurping of "state secrets."

[antonvs]

Notably, there’s nothing about children in that quote.