Chinese police have received more than 13,000 reports about pornographic material on the internet since the nation launched a campaign to restrict the spread of online pornography on April 12. Bluntly, that is merely scratching the surface. That would be much less than .01% of the pornographic sites on the Internet.
If the police are waiting for complaints they will soon see it is not the way to go. Thailand has managed to choke down many pornographic sites and it has done this by being proactive. It did not wait for the complaints to come in. It used a Google search and then started blocking sites.
In China the number of reports about pornographic websites has increased from around 300 to nearly 700 every day. But spam to this computer gets pretty close to that much every day. And that is but one computer.
According to the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) 31% of reports received by police in this period were about pornographic websites. An MPS official said, ‘The fight against pornographic websites has won wide support from Chinese people.’
A computer teacher, surnamed Jiang, from east China’s Zhejiang Province said: ‘I’m disgusted by the pornographic material on the internet, and deeply worried about the impact on children. We really need to crack down on internet crimes and pornography and create a clean and healthy cyberspace for youngsters.’
China has roughly 123 million internet users, most of whom are young people.
Wu Heping, spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security, said recently that preliminary statistics show that nearly 80% of juvenile delinquents have been lured into crime by evil content on the internet. e said, ‘In a high proportion of cheating, rape or robbery cases involving young people, the internet is a factor.’
Police announced that they had closed 1,450 porn websites and deleted more than 30,000 obscene messages online since the launch of the campaign. Multiply that by a hundred and it will still be scratching at the problem.
Source: English People’s Daily Online