[photopress:porn.jpg,full,alignright]China Telecom, the country’s major telecommunications operator, says it will tighten monitoring of service providers on its Vnet.cn website after an online adult movie scandal.
As reported by China Youth Daily, a user surnamed Qiao brought a lawsuit against the website’s Hunan channel for providing ‘a great deal of’ pornographic movies.
Immediately following the report, the channel’s operator, Hunan Telecom, terminated relations with the service provider, Hunan Hexun Technology, and blacklisted the company. Meanwhile, managers of the channel’s operating center were suspended.
China Telecom said it would set up inspection teams inside the company and in its provincial units and adopt a real-time monitoring method. It is also looking for input from the public.
Wang Yongzhen, a China Telecom executive said some local telecommunication firms ignored the responsibility of censoring content provided by their partners, which was the main cause of the incident.
Yang Keke, general manager of the China Telecom’s company’s Internet and value-added service department said, correctly, ‘Technically, it is quite difficult for us to accurately identify pornographic pictures and videos, which are different from text information.’ Which is perhaps where the public come in.
China lacks a law specifically defining online pornography. Indeed, anyone who can define pornography accurately probably has a great future as a lawyer. No one in either the American or British legal systems has so far succeeded and it is ever a moving target. What would have been pornography in 1950 is advertising today. And if you think our illustration is pornographic you have forgotten to take the tablets.
Source: People’s Daily Online
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