Forbidden fruit: China bans ‘erotic’ banana-eating live streams [View all]

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As part of China's crackdown on 'inappropriate' content online, live-streaming videos of people eating bananas 'erotically' have been banned, state media has reported. | YOUTUBE

Bananas may be China’s new forbidden fruit — at least online.

As part of the government’s crackdown on “inappropriate” content online, Chinese live-streaming video services have banned people from filming themselves while eating bananas “erotically,” state media has reported.

New regulations mean hosts of live-streaming services are now being required to monitor their output 24 hours a day, seven days a week, China’s state-run CCTV news reported last week. While standards have yet to be fixed, hosts of Web TV shows are prohibited from eating “bananas seductively” in front of the camera.

The move comes after China’s Culture Ministry on April 14 announced an investigation of popular live-broadcast websites for “allegedly providing content that contains pornography or violence and encourages viewers to break laws and harms social morality.”

CCTV reported Thursday that the sites being probed had tightened control of their most popular hosts, which it said were “predominately attractive women showing their cleavage.”

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