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China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-fourth-party-crap-doesn't-sound-so-bad-anymore dept.

Clandestine_Blaze writes "Chinese police have arrested 5,394 people — with another 4,186 criminal cases in the works — in one of the largest crackdowns on Internet porn in the country. Even more arrests are expected in 2010, according to the Ministry of Public Security's website (In Chinese or Google translated into English). According to the Reuters article on the crackdown, one of the justifications was that the pornography was 'threatening the emotional health of children.' From the English translation of the Ministry of Public Security's website linked above, it appears that certain provinces are also offering 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan rewards, per person, for reporting illegal websites to the government."

13 of 204 comments (clear)

  1. I don't understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is this strange concept, the Internet without porn? Maybe the meaning of "the Internet" was lost in translation for the Chinese.

    1. Re:I don't understand by selven · · Score: 4, Funny

      The people left on an internet without porn would be quite bored. Both of them.

    2. Re:I don't understand by slarrg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Until they find each other on AdultFriendFinder.com.

    3. Re:I don't understand by furball · · Score: 2, Funny

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGK2fplV_w

      Start at 5:10

  2. Re:I'm ever so thankful by superflit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Amen!!!!!

  3. This sound you hear.... by DrYak · · Score: 1, Funny

    Um... you can still go to jail for porn in the USA

    Um... sorry, does anyone know how to spell "Whooosh!" in Chinese ?

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  4. Re:1000 Yuan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since your post didn't mention it, 102.28 Euro is about 1,506,305,441,321 Zimbabwean dollars.

    1,506,305,441,321,301 Zimbabwean dollars.

    1,506,305,441,321,301,998 Zimbabwean dollars.

    Crap...

  5. Less than 10,000 in a billion watch porn? by syousef · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a country of saints and monks I tells ya!

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  6. Re:I'm ever so thankful by furball · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gay porn exists dude. I don't know what to tell you.

  7. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. That's all they found? by tubeguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    In China? Out of 1.3 billion people? They have some catching up to do....

  9. Re:I'm ever so thankful by pieszynski · · Score: 3, Funny

    oh come on, "we only have morality because of god"?

    Really?? REALLY??

    My incredulity is matched only by my overuse of the question mark.

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  10. Re:I'm ever so thankful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gay porn is made in Poland?