China Censors the X on Mobile Phones
In China, the anti-pornography campaigns have long been the preserve of the Communist Party, illustrated in recent years in the state media with images of giant steamroller crushing stacks of pornographic DVDs.
Now the moral police of the party focus on a phenomenon less tangible but pervasive apparently growing market X porn wireless.
The Ministry of Public Security recently launched a crackdown on pornography on mobile phones, targeting sites using wireless protocols and WAP - the usual methods of online websites for mobile phones. The campaign focuses on major cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong - where many WAP sites in China are recorded - and will continue until the end of the year, according to officials of Public Security.
The campaign quickly gained momentum and became an important case for three telecommunications operators licensed in China (China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom) to which the Ministry of Industry, Technology and Information, ordered to take appropriate action. The Department believes that these three companies currently provide WAP services to some 192 million mobile phone users.
And in China, when the government asked a private operator to act, this last-running quickly on Monday, China Mobile has announced the suspension of payments for all providers WAP with which she works, pending a review further services offered. China Mobile said it had blocked 626 sites with pornographic mobile from Sunday afternoon, among them 478 foreign sites and 148 sites hosted on Chinese servers (six of which were installed on the server China Mobile company itself).
In any case a halt brought to the X industry in China, when 3G services are increasing rapidly. While the first licenses were granted in January, there were the September 30, 2009 more than 7 million users of 3G phones.
The critics have not failed to argue that network operators have benefited from WAP mobile porn before submitting to the demands of the Chinese government. These companies were well paid for their subscribers connections without son and realize profits through a practice now considered illegal in China.
The campaign against pornographic WAP sites is part of an overall effort by the Chinese government to fight against obscenity on the Web, online casinos and publication of films and TV series censored. The current campaign against the sites X, launched in August, has already seen the closure of 6972 websites with pornographic content. To date, 41 people were detained for allegedly publishing pornography on networks for mobile phones. In total, this would be some 868 people who have been arrested since the start of the campaign launched last August.
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