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China Declares War on Internet Pornography

Posted by Zonk on from the year-of-the-turtle dept.

segphault writes "The Chinese government has shut down nearly 600 pornographic web sites, and arrested over 200 people for distributing "obscene" content. The Chinese government has also started performing covert surveillance of mobile phone text messages in order to crack down on banking fraud and prostitution organized and perpetrated with text messages. Ars Technica has the story: 'With more than 100 million Internet users, China has the second largest population of web content consumers after the United States. Although the Chinese government promotes web use for business, education, and government activity, the communist regime has committed its resources to crushing web sites that challenge government authority, or distribute content that the government considers to be detrimental to society'"

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  1. My Dreamjob: by zerojoker · · Score: 5, Funny

    checking content for the Chinese government and censor it accordingly.
    Watching P0rn from 9 to 5 at work... hm wait, that's not that different to my current job...

    1. Re:My Dreamjob: by irtza · · Score: 5, Funny

      They'll have absolutely no problems filling positions for these jobs. Probably will become one of the most sought after jobs in China. Maybe you should move there before it becomes impossible to get a position.

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    2. Re:My Dreamjob: by pHatidic · · Score: 4, Funny

      I used to have that job, but now I'm on disability leave because of an on-the-job injury: carpal tunnel.

  2. Wow! 600 porn sites!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's that? Like 0.0001% of all pornsites out there?

    1. Re:Wow! 600 porn sites!!!!!! by PHPfanboy · · Score: 5, Funny
      porn sites in Chinese..

      This must be really inconvenient for the fans, they'll have to visit non-Chinese-language sites and they'll have no idea what they're looking at.

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  3. On the other hand... by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    How much liberty and freedom would you sacrifice to remove goatse and tubgirl from the net?

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  4. Re:Chinese government... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... as if millions of pr0n-addicts moaned in disappointment and were suddenly silenced ...

    Until they realized that http://images.google.com/ wasn't blocked. :P

  5. War on Porn Vs War on Drugs by masterpenguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm taking all bets on which war is going to be won first.

    The War on Drugs

    or The War on Porn

    Place your bets now...

    1. Re:War on Porn Vs War on Drugs by NoOneInParticular · · Score: 4, Funny
      The War on Gambling.

      Consider yourself arrested.

  6. The Chinese have misunderstood the Internet by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly, the Chinese government has misunderstood the very purpose of the Internet .

    Such a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Internet is, and was intended to be used will result in the Chinese people using the Internet for less desirable purposes such as dissent, subversion, and spreading dangerous ideas such as freedom of thought and expression.

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  7. Re:Communist country? Are you serious? by tiggles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, you're just all high and mighty because you can drink your tap water and aren't in the early stages of cadmium poisoning.

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