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| Chinese AntiPr0n Campaign Nets Another 16,000 Websites |
| 2010-02-13 |
| China makes good on its promise to crack down on online pr0n. The comments in the linked story are... interesting China shut down 16,000 more web sites which are found to contain lewd or pr0nographic content as of Wednesday during the latest crackdown. Statistics from the International Communication Office of the CPC Central Committee show that, since the crackdown was launched in last December, more than 850,000 pictures and 1.3 million messages with lewd or pr0nographic content were deleted. Also, more than 30 online novels and 15 mobile phone games were halted. An official with the office said the campaign made significant breakthroughs in striking the profit chains for pr0n web sites as the lewd content on the Internet in the country were obviously reduced and the tendency of spreading such information through cell phones was kept under control. According to the official, 24 network operators were named and shamed for providing services for such web sites. Since the country issued measures on rewarding tip-offs on pr0n web sites in last December, a total of 476 whistlers had been rewarded 395,000 yuan ($57,800). Earlier this month, the country issued a judicial interpretation which further clarified that production, replication, publication, sale and spread of obscene electronic information (video) involving minors aged under 14 via Internet or mobile WAP sites will be recognized as a crime. China has more than 338 million Internet users, and more than 60 percent are younger than 30, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. On December 8, the country launched a new round of crackdown on spread of pr0nographic contents through Internet or mobile WAP sites to "purify the social environment." The campaign is expected to run through May. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 With that many surplus men of fighting age the Chinese might find war a beneficial activity, and pr0n in conflict with it. It's a classic outcome of this sort of imbalance, yes. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-02-13 18:49 |
| #5 Where there's a will, there's a way. Just going to make Chinese hackers focus on cracking the Great [Internet] Wall to get to the stuff outside. And if you can get outside, you can get inside. Then it'll be a real race between the authorities and the hackers in plugging and hacking. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-02-13 12:13 |
| #4 The Chinese may as well try war. They will never catch up in the boobage race. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-13 11:31 |
| #3 With that many surplus men of fighting age the Chinese might find war a beneficial activity, and pr0n in conflict with it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-02-13 10:01 |
| #2 Given that Chinese policies have led to there being 26.5 million more Chinese men ages 15-64 than women ages 15-64, one must conclude: the Chinese need pr0n. Stats taken from the CIA World Factbook. As the song goes, "The Internet is for Pr0n." |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2010-02-13 07:04 |
| #1 This will not end well. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-02-13 02:50 |