In an article posted by Yahoo!, China is apparently taking some peculiar steps to prepare itself for the Beijing Olympics.

The communist-run country is placing a ban on all media content that includes "wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror."

The purpose of the ban is to "control and cleanse the negative effect these items have on society, and to prevent horror, violent, cruel publications from entering the market through official channels and to protect adolescents' psychological health."

Gimme a f-ing break! It seems to me the last time a government tried to "control and cleanse" it led to the slaughter of 6 million jews.

I read things like this and it make me all that more happy that I live in a free and democratic society. Sometime it's easy to take freedom of speech for granted.

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