Catching Porn in China
Both Danwei and chinaSMACK reported on the the PSB’s investigation of a Nanyang man for downloading pornography.
As Danwei noted, the initial fine of RMB1900 was lifted and he was given a stern warning after considerable hubbub (or is hubba-hubba?) on the internet in China.
I’m interested in how the PSB knew he had a pornographic video [...]
Gov to Web: Happy News it Up
The South China Morning Post reports:
First it was fund houses, then brokerages. Now, the cyber world is the target of a Beijing clampdown amid fears that pessimistic comments and bitter complaints about the mainland’s slumping stock markets may lead to social disunity.
Major financial websites on the mainland have been verbally informed by the propaganda department [...]
NDRC & IPv6: Hey Sixy, Where You Goin’?
China Tech News reports:
The National Development and Reform Commission of China has released a special notice on the commercial trial and the equipment industrialization of IPv6 on its official website.
…The notice says that to actively promote the application and the industry development of China’s next-generation Internet business, a commercial trial of the next-generation Internet business [...]
When Codes of Conduct Collide
Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports:
U.S. technology giants Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, in talks with other Internet companies and human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for activities in China and other restrictive countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In separate letters sent to Democratic Senator Richard [...]
Reporters Sans Barricades
Reuters, via Yahoo News reports:
IOC press chief Kevan Gosper said earlier this week that some IOC officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites to the media, despite repeated promises of a free Internet, but on Friday officials backtracked, saying once again there would be unrestricted access.
“The issue has been solved,” IOC [...]
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