China gets tough on internet porn
 

China has introduced tough new penalties against those responsible for internet and mobile phone pornography.
The official Xinhua news agency said the Supreme Court had set out penalties of up to life imprisonment for what it described as very severe cases.

For lesser cases, internet or mobile phone pornographers could be subject to detention or surveillance.

The latest measures show the authorities' deepening concern over the complex task of policing the web.

The measures are part of an anti-porn campaign that began earlier this year, when hundreds of people were arrested and hundreds of websites shut down.

Chinese media has been sounding increasingly alarmed about the amount of pornography on the internet.

A less talked about but equally acute worry is the potential for political dissent.

China has around 100m internet users, many of them young people in urban areas.

It is believed to have tens of thousands of internet police, and is constantly finding new ways of suppressing what it sees as undesirable content.

But the emergence of such tough measures seems to be another acknowledgement of the enormity of the task.



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Hmmmmmmmm.......I think I may still work around this problem with the masses.:)

nooo

I think they are using 'adult' as a stick to beat the Internet with. I think their real concern is the availability of information and news on the web and the potential exposure of the Chinese people to dissenting views. They make a great fuss about the polluting influence of western decadence (which sells well in the country) when in fact they are concerned about how they can hid bad news when their people have access to up-to-date information from around the world.

Totalitarian regimes throughout history have understood the absolute need to control what information reaches their people.

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I'm happy for every chinese visitor that does not make it to my site!

Now that was funny :1orglaugh

Shit I was planning a communist porn site