Cenk Uygur
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Sexy Banana Eating Now Banned
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May 10, 2016
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5:31Now PlayingThe government of China has very strict rules about what is allowed on the country’s internet. Now they are banning seductive banana eating. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“China has reportedly outlawed the “erotic” online consumption of bananas after the president, Xi Jinping, called for steps to “rehabilitate” his country’s “cyber-ecology”.
Speaking at a Communist party summit last year, Xi said action was needed to promote “civilised behaviour” on China’s already heavily controlled internet.
That clean-up has now claimed an unlikely, potassium-rich victim, according to domestic media reports.
Beijing-controlled broadcaster CCTV said authorities had barred live-streaming platforms from airing videos in which bananas are “seductively” consumed by young female presenters.”
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