China has arrested thousands of porn surfers and will arrest more in 2010, will Thailand follow suit? In Thailand it is in illegal to visit a porn site but the law is almost never enforced. It also illegal to visit a proxy to avoid being detected. You can still visit a live porn show in your favoirte red light district in Thailand but go online is strictly forbidden, you go figure.
China says it arrested thousands of people over the course of 2009 in a crackdown on web pornography and says it will continue the push in the new year, according to a report.
The Chinese government announced on Thursday last week that the sweeping effort resulted in 5,394 arrests and 4,186 criminal investigations, a fourfold increase over the previous year, according to Reuters; and those numbers could rise even higher. Reuters says China’s Ministry of Public Security warned that in 2010 it will intensify punishments for illegal internet operations, ramp up information monitoring and press ISPs to use preventive technology.
China’s efforts to eradicate porn and other frowned-upon content from the web are not new. The country has blocked user-generated content sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, although savvy users have found workarounds that allow them to access the sites. And it has successfully persuaded independent companies to comply with its initiative. Google acknowledged last year that the Chinese government asked it to disable a search feature with the goal of censoring pornography.
China also ran into problems in the summer of 2009, when a plan to require desktop-monitoring software called Green Dam Youth Escort on all new PCs backfired.
Source ZDnet
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