homemade porn and press freedom in China

OK. So a young lady called Feng Yangyan, who is no better than she ought to be, hires a handsome fellow with whom to lose her virginity and posts a video of the event on the Chinese internet. The story duly gets picked up by local media. Roland Soong provides some context: 

Forty years ago ... the publisher, the reporter and the principal might have been sentenced to be executed for counter-revolutionary behavior. 

Thirty years ago ... the publisher, the reporter and the principal might have been sentenced to long periods of labor reform in the countryside for decadent bourgeois behavior. 

Twenty years ago ... the publisher and the reporter might have lost their jobs and be banned from working in journalism forever, and the principal might have been subjected to a short prison term for educational correction. 

Ten years ago ... the publisher and the reporter might have lost their jobs but will surface elsewhere in journalism, and the principal might have been given 10 days of administrative detention for disseminating pornography. 

Yesterday ... the publisher gets job recognition for gathering eyeballs, the reporter gets applauded for exclusive journalistic realism and the principal becomes an Internet celebrity. Meanwhile, the netiziens yawn with a small number exclaiming perfunctorily, "Oh, aren't those post-90's people awesome?"

Comments

[Richard J]

Out of curiosity, what's the significance of referring to the post-90s generation? Is this an accepted Chinese concept these days?

[jamie]

Yes, it's basically the local version of "generation Y" . Nineties in this context refers to Deng's tour of the south in 1992 and the wholesale dash for growth after that. So we're talking about the generation to young either to have lived under communism proper or the early years of reform.