In case you were wondering about the burst of Chinese traffic
 

Chinese censors pay public to surf for porn

Sunday, December 6th, 2009 -- 7:38 pm


In a move that's sure to make Internet freedom advocates everywhere laugh out loud, Chinese government censors hard-pressed to stem the tide of porn are now offering to pay web users to go searching for it.

Almost needless to say, China's interest in pornography has swelled, in a manner of speaking.

Authorities are offering rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report sites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday.

The scheme, part of a larger Internet porn crackdown that even extends to mobile WAP sites, is being marketed by Chinese officials as a way to protect youths during the holiday. The porn prohibition even includes advertisements for sex-related products.

Within the first 24 hours, a hotline set up Friday by Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center was flooded with more than 500 phone calls and 13,000 online tips, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Rewards ranging from 1,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan will go to the first person to report each website, the center said in a notice, adding a committee would review the tipoffs to determine what award was appropriate, Xinhua said.

China has launched several Internet crackdowns on pornography, con artists and political activists in the past.

Earlier this year China threatened to sanction major websites, including search engine giants Google and Baidu, alleging that pornography and other material that could corrupt young people was turning up in search results.

Since June, the government has required all personal computers sold in China to be outfitted with an automated censorship program called the "Green Dam-Youth Escort."

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/chinese-...lic-surf-porn/

Wow, big rewards. The censoring in China is ridiculous.

who give a shit?

I was wondering where these 32,000 hits came from... but now I got it. Must have been the Chinese government checking "things out"

Gotta love commies.

Kill Charley

Will they pay North Americans? Reporting porn sounds far more lucrative than selling it...

I bet half the tipsters are creating the sites themselves.
WG

Just like with p3d0s the ones that want to "help stop it" get investigated right away. They [obviously] are trying for an excuse to view.

In over 16 years on public networks [phrased to include bbs], I have never stumbled upon see pee. So you know the people who have it, are into it and found it because of said desire.

When the sub7 trojan came out waaaay back when: "someone I know" found links to it on a church computer, when "they" went to report it the trojan was gone =/.

http://asacp.com/ 4L

this is so reatarded. most websites are already blocking china to avoid the bandwith waste

I wouldn't mind to earn 10000 yuan :)

Sounds more like a sting to me... they get your details then arrest you for loading pornographic websites. :D