A college student in China who said his studies suffered after he discovered Internet porn has been awarded 10,000 yuan (1,466 dollars) for helping the government crack down on sexual content online.
The unidentified student at an unnamed college in northern Shanxi province reported 32 websites that contained pornography, winning a nationwide contest that has encouraged web-surfers to hunt down porn.
The unnamed student said, “In the past, when I was in middle school, I used to get grades that were good enough to enter a really good university. It is because of the influence of pornography on the Internet that I was only able to go to junior college.”
During an interview with the Shanxi Daily, this student stated his first encounter with porn was in middle school.
“I used Google because we couldn’t find any porn on Chinese websites. After our English teacher taught us the word “sex”, I entered the word and many foreign porn sites came up.”
Nearly 62,000 websites were reported during the first month of the crackdown, the paper said — an indication that a hefty number of web users were on the lookout for porn.
Chinese authorities arrested more than 5,000 people in a crackdown on Internet pornography in 2009, officials said earlier this year.
Internet use has expanded at a dizzying pace in China, which now has the world’s largest online population with at least 338 million users.
I don’t know what to say. Each site that the govern-ment takes down, about 100 new ones pops up. So in a way, one can make a living just by reporting porn sites; it is a sustainable way of making money.
The comment about can’t find any porn on Chinese websites and had to resort to using Google is simply outrageous and is a tell tale sign of being scripted ahead of time.
This proves that Google is better than Baidu in finding any information. Screw Baidu. By the way, what’s wrong with adult sites as long as they are visited by adults only.
I remember a news item a few months ago about the University of Montreal doing research on the affect of porn on men. The research eventually ended without any conclusion because researchers couldn’t find any man who haven’t watched porn.
Have you heard of wumaodang (fifty cents party)? There are many other ways to make money too.
I just checked it out and I’m not surprised that there are full time web commenters like that. Pretty interesting!
They are officially dubbed Net Commentators. I guess they should get a raise and be paid 1 Yuan for their earnest work. Recently I have read quite a few of their writings in mop.com.