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Adam’s family purchased a new computer when he entered eighth grade. Among the new system’s perks: a free year-long subscription to AOL. After his parents had gone to sleep, Adam would sneak into the family’s computer room to speak with gay men in chat rooms. He asked them questions like “How do you know you’re gay?” as he tried to unravel his own pubescent confusion. Soon after, Adam began exchanging gay pornography. “I didn’t really...
Adam’s parents decided not to renew the AOL subscription the following year, and Adam felt his sexual curiosity diminish. “In the absence of the Internet it was like I lost the need to explore my sexuality,” he says. “I didn’t masturbate to gay porn. I just went to school and did my work...
...10th grade, Adam’s parents re-installed AOL. “They thought it would help me go online and do research for school,” he says. “They wanted me to use it as an educational resource.” Instead, Adam resumed downloading gay pornography and forging online relationships...
...government. There simply aren't many ways for overseas broadcasters to get signals to the public. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. beams some programming into the country through its STAR satellite business and its joint venture with Phoenix TV, a 24-hour news channel based in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company) has invested in CETV, another Chinese news and entertainment channel. But, it is technically illegal for most Chinese citizens to receive these broadcasts...
...Connections, not cash, will allow Tom.com to butt heads with much bigger rivals. Li's principal advantage is his ability to make nice with the Chinese government in ways that AOL Time Warner and News Corp., purveyors of Western programming and news that does not match Beijing's worldview, cannot. Li will never slip up as Murdoch, the News Corp. chairman, did in 1993 when he declared in a speech that foreign media have the power to topple totalitarian regimes everywhere?a statement that got him temporarily banned from conducting business in China. Conversely, Li's easy rapport with Beijing...