Internet porn: China says it's winning war

Cnet.com ^ | 12/30/2005

[Panerai]

China is winning the war on Internet pornography but it will be hard to eradicate entirely as many Web sites are based outside of the country, a senior police official said Thursday.

China routinely blocks access to Internet sites on sensitive subjects such as self-ruled Taiwan, which China regards as its own, and the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations, which were crushed by the military with heavy loss of life.

Regulations also target sites that publish fabricated information and content deemed to harm national security.

"The spread of Web sites that involve pornography has been bought under effective control," Zhao Shiqiang, vice head of the Ministry of Public Security's Internet security and supervision bureau, told a news conference.

Police had detained 221 people and shut down almost 600 domestic pornographic Web sites as of the end of November, Zhao said.

"Due to the specialized nature of Internet technology, there are still some places where pornography exists," he added. "Harmful information on overseas sites can still be transmitted internally, and a minority of people try to use the Web to carry out illegal activities."

China has been taking aim at violent Web-based games as well as spam, fraud and gambling.

New rules earlier this year targeted Internet news content to tighten the noose on freewheeling bloggers and rein in a growing source of information for the mainland's more than 100 million Internet users.

[al baby]

I look at China porn and a hour later i want to see some more

[operation clinton cleanup]

Have they been successful in weeding out spam... or offers of easy wealth from Nigeria?

[dirtboy]

Of course, to the ChiComs, this is a pornographic image:

[operation clinton cleanup]

I look at China porn and a hour later i want to see some more

You obviously have never seen China porn!

[gitmo]

Are they claiming their porn can lick our porn?

[billybudd]

The Communist Chinese government also reported that all Chinese people are squarely behind their government with much love and adoration (no dissidents), and all is well in the worker's paradise (no riots or slave labor).