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 [...]
IPv4 Doomsday: The Gods Themselves
China Tech News reports:
News reports emanating from the 2008 IP Address Resource Seminar held by the China Internet Network Information Center stated that because the current IPv4 addresses were limited and 80% of the final allocation IP addresses had been used, new Chinese netizens may not be able to gain normal access to the Internet [...]
IPv6: Start the Doomsday Clock at 830 Days
China Tech News reports:
The Internet in China may soon run out. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, under the current allocation speed, China’s IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no proper measures are taken by then, new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain [...]
Corporate Warfare on the Internet
Shanghai Daily reports:
POLICE in Shandong Province have caught three men allegedly responsible for a citywide Internet breakdown in Weifang in July, according to xinhuanet.com.
…The report did not say when the breakdown occurred but said in July police received an alert from the Weifang Branch of the China Netcom Group, which serves about 90 percent of [...]
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 [...]
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