China Bans “Erotic” Banana Eating Online [VIDEO]

CBS News reports



Live-streaming has become a major source of revenue in China, which has 668 million people online — the world’s largest Internet community. It’s in that environment that the notoriously controlling central authority governing Internet activities has struggled to keep up its conservative standards, recently banning the eating of bananas “erotically” during live streams, according to state-controlled CCTV.

The site reports: “Last month, the country’s Ministry of Culture announced that all of the major platforms – Douyu, Panda.tv, YY, Zhanqi TV, and Huya were under investigation. It said that these platforms were accused of hosting content that was too vulgar, violent, or too sexual.”

The Ministry of Culture said recently online live-streaming platforms draw around 200 million users, with major sites running several thousand live-streaming “studios” simultaneously. The government’s investigation reportedly revealed up to 40 percent of people putting on the live-streaming shows were students, and that 77 percent of the viewership was male.