China Versus Porn: Round 2
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According to reports from a government Internet watchdog, China has shut down about 1,287 websites that cater to harmful content - pornography, religious cults, gambling and superstition.
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This past Sunday the Washington Post ran a piece on the possibility of a nuclear war with China. To my knowledge it's the first to appear in such an auspicious publication, so I'll quote it at length:Given China's appetites and our alliances and interests, a war is not inconceivable in Taiwan, or in Korea. To remove American nuclear escalation from the equation, China would need not parity but only a deterrent such as it has long possessed. The Chinese, however, whose nuclear thresholds are dissimilar to ours, would have other options. They know that every facet of America's economy, military and society depends on individual and networked electronic devices. Were these to fail all at once and irreparably, the nation would seize up, perhaps for years.Faced with victory, or with loss, they might choose to -- and who would venture to guarantee that they would not? -- detonate half a dozen high-megatonnage nuclear charges in the mesosphere, in an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) strike perhaps not even in American airspace, cooking almost every circuit and semiconductor, rendering the American government blind, deaf and dumber than it is already and the country unable to resist the inroads that would surely follow.  Heady stuff, written in a hawkish style reminiscent of the Cold War, but does it add up to a plausible scenario for toe-to-toe nuclear combat?
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The music industry again attacks China's leading search engine.
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By Susan Lee  AT first I couldn't believe the figures. More than 30 children rescued from an internet porn ring? Right here in Britain?   But hang on, where were the appeals about these kids? The searches?   Then I realised they hadn't vanished at all.
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China, computers and algorithms combine in a perfect storm.
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The names may change. Not the results. China still rules the Olympic diving pool. The Chinese earned another gold medal - their fifth of the Athens Games - when Guo Jingjing
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China's making progress in the effort to squelch software piracy -- but the warez are still easily available, if you know the right alleys to walk down.
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Yahoo's switchover plan for the photo-sharing site draws fire. Plus: Yahoo unveils a universe of brands. In Monkey Bites.
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UnanimousCoward writes &quot;A spokesperson has responded to the &#39;censorship&#39; questions in this article: &#39;&quot;Google has decided that in order to create the best possible search experience for our mainland China users we will not include sites whose content is
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China is cracking down on music sites. Really.
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Private videos seem to be escaping to the internet in droves. Do we care? In Sex Drive Daily.
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Impressive evidence of the Chinese government's ability to monitor and control electronic communication shows one reporter how far the country is going in order to control and "purify" the internet. He applies what he learns, supplying tips on how to breach China's Great Firewall.
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China introduces tough measures against internet pornography, including possible life imprisonment.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH     SHANGHAI, China  -- China plans ratings systems for online games, books and movies to protect children from violence and sexual content in the nation's latest effort to tighten controls on various media, reports said Friday.    The system for censoring online games will be introduced by the end of October and will come ahead of "any similar actions on books and movies," the state-run newspaper Shanghai Daily said, citing officials attending a conference in Shanghai...
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Just in time for Halloween, Google&#39;s YouTube became available again in China Wednesday, two weeks after it was blocked.Although Chinese Internet regulators don&#39;t comment on why sites are blocked,&#160;YouTube&#39;s blocking&#160;seemed to be tied one or two events: the 17th Communist Party Congress, the Chinese Communist Party&#39;s most important meeting, held every five years; and the launching of YouTube&#39;s traditional language site in Taiwan, both during the same week in the middle of this month. The YouTube Taiwan site is also available in China.However, while YouTube can be viewed again, Blogspot is once again unavailable, one of several sites that see-saw between being allowed or prohibited. Although attempts to reach Blogspot&#39;s homepage rerouted to Blogger.com&#39;s simplified Chinese homepage, neither Blogspot owner Google&#39;s official blog nor the infamous Chinabounder blog -- which features the sexual exploits and political rantings of a foreign English teacher in Shanghai -- could be reached.Blocked throughout the recent changes&#160;is the English-language site of Wikipedia. Its Chinese-language site is&#160;almost always unavailable&#160;here.China regularly blocks access to Web sites that it finds objectionable, including those dealing with politically sensitive subjects such as the Falun Gong religious cult and independence for Taiwan and Tibet, along with some pornographic sites.&#160;
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Music, books and Hollywood films...  China can now add testimonies of regret by corrupt officials to  its exhaustive list of copyright violations.
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Researchers tell a Senate hearing that internet porn is more addictive and harmful than street drugs. One calls for government-funded research into the 'erototoxins.' By Ryan Singel.