China Steps Up Online Porn Busts
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China Steps Up Online Porn Busts
Beijing Increases Crackdown On Purveyors Of Internet Sex It Says Perverts
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BEIJING, April 13, 2007
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A Chinese-language porn site on the Internet in Beijing, Sept. 6, 2004. China
has beefed up its ongoing crackdown on Internet porn with new rules that allow
courts to issue life sentences to those convicted of posting pornography online.
(Getty Images/Peter Parks)
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"The inflow of pornographic materials from abroad and lax domestic control are
to blame for the existing problems in China's cyberspace."
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Deputy public security minister Zhang Xinfeng
(AP) The Chinese government is launching a new crackdown on online pornography,
complaining it has "perverted China's young minds," a state news agency said
Friday.
The Ministry of Public Security says the six-month campaign will target cyber
strip shows and sexually explicit images, stories and audio and video clips,
according to the Xinhua News Agency.
"The boom of pornographic content on the Internet has contaminated cyberspace
and perverted China's young minds," Zhang Xinfeng, a deputy public security
minister, was quoted as saying Thursday.
Also Friday, police announced that two Web site operators were sentenced to four
years in prison and a third got one year for distributing pornographic movies
and other materials in separate cases last year, Xinhua reported.
One of the Web sites had signed up 260,000 users when its operator was arrested
last year, the news agency reported. In another case, it said, four people were
arrested for distributing material online and 400 computers were seized.
Police also have broken up crime rings that used the Internet to organize
prostitution, Xinhua said.
The latest campaign also will target illegal online lotteries and contraband
trade, fraud and "content that spreads rumors and is of a slanderous nature,"
Zhang said at a news conference.
In China's biggest online porn case to date, Web site operator Chen Hui was
sentenced in November to life in prison. The government said his Web site had
more than 9 million pornographic images and more than 600,000 registered users.
China has the world's second-biggest population of Internet users after the
United States, with 137 million people online.
The communist government encourages Internet use for education and business, but
tries to block access to material considered obscene or subversive.
"The inflow of pornographic materials from abroad and lax domestic control are
to blame for the existing problems in China's cyberspace," Zhang said.
According to Xinhua, the Beijing Reformatory for Juvenile Delinquents said 33.5
percent of its detainees were influenced by violent online games or erotic Web
sites when they committed crimes such as robbery and rape.
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If there is food contamination in China, people will die, they won't even know
the cause. The hospital will just say its kidney failure, there are no public
statistics (except phony ones) so there is no trace of the epidemic proportions.
Lots of people will die, but they won't understand the cause. If you do figure
out the cause, and try to publicly warn people, you go to prison.
This is much like what American corporations would like to have here, that's why
they love China so much. No accountability, no lawsuits, no unions, no one can
complain about anything. it keeps manufacturing costs down. That's what they
love about illegals too - I read one piece where illegals are getting these
horrible injuries like hands cut off but they don't ever file for insurance or
comp, corporations love that kind of thing.
Posted by SharnCedar at 07:38 PM : Apr 14, 2007
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They probably have more of a chance of regulating the internet than they do
their food.
From the sounds of it all their food is probably contaminated. Where do youstart? It would be overwhelming. With that much contamination, the living
conditions there must be horrendous.
Posted by erasmus6 at 04:50 PM : Apr 14, 2007
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Funny, they can't seem to regulate the chemical laden food they are pushing all
over the world but they have plenty of time and resources to regulate the
internet.
Posted by jon_mccain at 12:17 PM : Apr 14, 2007
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