China Digital Times

China news tagged with: pornography (20)

• China Destroys 47 Mln Illegal Publications To Boost IPR Protection

  

  Western pornographers angry at China’s lax intellectual property enforcement must be happy. From Xinhua:

  Chinese authorities destroyed 47.18 million pornographic and illegal publications on Sunday as part of an ongoing campaign to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPR) protection.

  The campaign, organized by the national anti-pornography and anti-piracy office and carried out in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, marked an unprecedented number of publications destroyed in a single day.

  More than 17 provinces eliminated more than 1 million pieces each, with Guangdong topping the list, destroying 12 million, or a quarter of the total.

  China has attached great importance to IPR protection, which has been considered as a national strategy to help build an innovative country, said Liu Binjie, director of the National Copyright Administration.

  » Read more
  • April 21, 2008 2:30 AM

• Baidu Slammed Over Porn Pics

  

  While Hong Kong authorities start cracking down on those involved in spreading nude photos from Edison Chen’s party, Beijing also shows its fist, according to Xinhua News Agency:

  Web search engine Baidu.com was asked this week by Beijing’s Internet self-discipline organization to make a public apology for spreading pornographic photos of Hong Kong celebrity Edison Chen.

  The Beijing Internet news information review council, established by the government-sponsored Beijing association of online media, issued a statement on Monday, criticizing the Nasdaq-listed website as being badly behaved during the event.

  The statement praised other mainland websites, including Sohu.com, Sina.com and Netease, as they urged Internet users “not to download, save or spread the photos” and “to prevent the photos from falling into the hands of children”.

  » Read more
  • February 20, 2008 5:24 PM

• Chinese Censors Ban Erotic Movie Makers From Competing In Domestic Awards – Xinhua

  

  From Xinhua:

  Chinese censors have banned producers of erotic movies and from competing for any film awards.

  The ban, recently issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), also prohibits directors and leading actors from taking part in such any awards, the Beijing News reported on Monday.

  “The heaviest punishment for such violation would lead to a five-year ban of perpetrators from the movie industry,” the newly-issued ordinance was quoted by the newspaper. [Full Text]

  » Read more
  • December 31, 2007 9:35 PM

• China Disconnects 18,400 Illegal Websites – Lydia Chen

  

  From Shanghai Daily:

  China blocked access to 18,401 illegal Websites during a nationwide campaign against online pornography that started in April, an industry newspaper reported today.

  A total of 9,593 unregistered Websites were shut down while 8,808 Websites were closed for disseminating pornographic, illicit or fraudulent pictures and information on the Internet, said Miao Wei, deputy general manager of China Telecom, the country’s biggest telecommunication carrier, which was involved in the campaign. [Full Text]

  » Read more
  • September 12, 2007 3:54 AM

• Porn Crackdown Targets Online Fiction – Maya Alexandri

  

  Danwei comments on the government’s recent announcement that it was scrubbing the Chinese Internet clean of “obscene” online fiction:

  …The dragnet has already snared 348 websites, accused of publishing “disgusting” written content that could “easily poison the minds of young people.”

  This anti-vice operation seems a strange use of China’s resources. Written pornography isn’t as scintillating as pornographic photographs or movies, which are widely available online and off. And even if this crackdown is part of China’s general push to “clean up” before the Olympics, online written pornography isn’t in the same category of behaviors that will be obvious to foreign visitors, like spitting, queue-jumping, or wandering around the hutong without a shirt on. [Full Text]

  » Read more
  • August 24, 2007 10:16 PM

• China Punishes Nearly 350 Porn Websites – AFP

  

  From AFP via Inquirer.net:

  Chinese authorities have punished 348 Internet websites for publishing “pornographic novels” online, citing social order concerns, state media reported Tuesday.

  Some of those websites have even been closed down, said Xinhua news agency, without stating the exact number. Publishing pornographic novels online “causes great harm to the psychological development of young people” and violates China’s laws on Internet and publishing, Xinhua quoted the state press watchdog as saying. [Full Text]
  
  

  » Read more
  • August 14, 2007 12:55 PM

• China shuts down Falun Gong, porn and pirate publishers – Xinhua

  

  From Xinhua, via China Daily:

  Chinese authorities have closed dozens of illegal producers of Falun Gong material or pornographic and pirate DVDs, the National Anti-Pornography and Anti-Piracy Office announced on Friday to coincide with the launch of a major campaign against piracy.

  Among those arrested were publishers of Falun Gong leaflets, books and scrolls in the northeastern Heilongjiang province. [ Full Text]

  » Read more
  • July 16, 2006 6:33 AM

• Major Websites urge self discipline against unhealthy contents – Xinhua

  

  From Xinhua News Agency (link):

  A dozen of major Beijing-based Internet portals have called for the industry’s joint efforts to clean their Websites off unhealthy contents, especially messages of sex and violence.

  In a joint proposal drawn up on Sunday, owners of 14 websites, including Sina.com, Sohu.com, Baidu.com, and Yahoo’s Chinese Website, called on all Internet portals across the country to stem “unhealthy Internet cultures.”

  Also see Xinhua’s special report on Internet (link)

  Also Wikipedia’s “Internet in China” and “Internet censorship in China”

  » Read more
  • April 10, 2006 2:55 PM

• China shuts 5,089 pornographic chat-rooms in crackdown

  

  From Interfax China :
  

  The Chinese government shut down 5,098 websites providing pornographic video chat services during a nationwide campaign running from September to November of this year, a government official said.

  Pornographic chat-rooms have become increasingly common in China, generally consisting of a woman hired to sit naked with a PC camera while chatting online with patrons. Providers of the service rent space for these chat-rooms from other websites, making it more difficult for authorities to find and shut down their operations. Moreover, the chat-rooms take significant precautions to guard access to the services.

  » Read more
  • December 26, 2005 5:30 AM

• China arrests 101 people for obscene Internet activity – AFP

  

  From AFP, via TODAYonline:

  China has arrested 101 criminal suspects since police started to crack down on Internet “obscenity” in August.

  The suspects included people who used the Internet to set up illegal chatrooms that recruit others to participate in pornographic movies, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the public security ministry.

  “This behavior has severely polluted the Internet environment, done harm to juvenile’s physical and mental health and caused strong public anger,” the ministry said.

  The special crackdown was jointly initiated by the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Information Industry and the Information Office of China’s cabinet, the State Council in August.

  See also “Nation cracks down on porn activities in chatrooms” from Xinhua.

  » Read more
  • October 13, 2005 11:48 PM

• The Internet Is Bad, China Says – Alina Plesu

  

  From Softpedia.com:

  The Internet is a strange place, where dangers like erotic web-chats, naughty sites, warez and other virtual monsters are determined to pervert the minds of the young Chinese and to make them prisoners of the virtual reality.

  At least that’s what the Chinese authorities think, as China Daily reports. That is why the Beijing Municipal Youth League has made a documentary, in which it is illustrated the right way to use the Internet.

  “Internet Teenagers” teaches the Chinese teenagers not to look on the Internet for relaxation, entertainment or friends, but to seek these goals in the real world.

  » Read more
  • September 16, 2005 4:56 PM

• China to root out violence and porn from online games

  

  From Reuters:

  China is stepping up censorship of online gaming to root out pornography, eliminate threats to state security and to stop youths becoming addicted, Xinhua news agency said on Monday…

  New industry standards would require developers to amend games that can cause addiction and a group of “quality games” would be recommended, Xinhua said without elaborating. New censorship of online games started in April and would last until September, targeting pornography, gambling, violence and games “threatening state security”, Xinhua reported…

  Addressing rampant piracy in the industry, the campaign would also punish “illegal behaviour” that infringes on intellectual property rights and disturbs market order, Xinhua said.

  » Read more
  • May 30, 2005 3:46 AM

• ESWN: The Greatest Internet Crime Trial in China

  

  From ESWN:

  Here is a photo of a public trial being held at the Middle-level Number 1 People’s Court in the city of Hofei in Anhui province.¬† There are eleven defendants altogether.¬† They are being accused of being part of a criminal enterprise based upon an Internet forum…

  So what exactly were they doing that constituted criminal behavior?¬† Well, this should have been easy to guess.¬† As a country, China has the second largest number of Internet users.¬† When Chinese people get on the Internet, most of them are not banging the keyboard to talk about freedom or democracy.¬† Similarly, as a country, the United States has the largest number of Internet users and most Americans do not get on the Internet to talk about the privatization of social security or the appointment of John Bolton as US Ambassador to the United Nations.¬† The common thing about the United States and China is that the most popular subject on the Internet is … pornography.

  » Read more
  • May 13, 2005 8:38 AM

• China’s Internet Operators Told To Clear Online Smut

  

  “Authorities have given China’s Internet and telecom operators, regulators and police a deadline: clear the country of online smut before October 1, the National Day holiday marking the birth of the People’s Republic.

  The task force created to carry out this “people’s war against electronic pornography,” involving at least five ministries and government departments, has responded to the decree with zeal — but so far, with limited success. ”

  Read the New York Times article via The Financial Express here.

  » Read more
  • September 26, 2004 5:04 PM

• China Threatens Internet Porn Merchants with Life

  

  “China has intensified its battle against Internet and mobile phone pornography by threatening distributors with life in prison, Xinhua news agency said.

  “Depending on the seriousness of the cases, the sentences range from living under compulsory surveillance, detainment, taking into custody by the police, to various terms of imprisonment and life imprisonment,” Xinhua said.

  Beijing has stepped up its battle against smut in recent weeks, saying it is worried that the easy access to such material on the Internet and elsewhere will have a bad effect on youth and society.

  Under the latest crackdown, which started in July, authorities have shut down hundreds of Web sites and arrested more than 300 people. ”

  Read the full Reuters’ article here.

  » Read more
  • September 6, 2004 3:57 PM

CDT BOOKSHELF

China Digital Times is run by the Berkeley China Internet Project | Copyright © China Digital Times | Powered by WordPress.