Porn And Gambling On Internet Targeted

China Government Takes Virtual Cops Help To Weed Out Porn And Gambling Over Internet

In China,the Government will soon assign "virtual cops" to monitor and wipe out pornography, gambling and other illicit activities on the Internet, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said. The ministry said,by the end of June, the virtual cops will monitor all major portals and online forums across China.
Nine other ministerial level government departments and the MPS will take part in the campaign to root out "harmful material and information" and "illicit activities" from the Internet, starting this month.
"The existence of these problems has affected the healthy development of the Internet, brought harm to the youths' minds, contaminated the social ethos and disrupted the social order," Zhang Xinfeng, vice-minister of the MPS was quoted by the Xinhua News Agency as saying.

How it will work

The police inserted a floating cartoon icon of a policeman on major websites. The sites are linked to the local police stations and have an alarm system. The success of that program prompted the MPS to take it nationwide.The simple appearance of these floating icons will remind people these websites are under surveillance.

In the next six months, the ministries will crack down on illegal online activities such as distributing pornographic materials and organizing cyber strip shows. They intend to purge the Web of sexually explicit images, stories, and audio and video clips.
The campaign will also target illegal online lotteries, contraband trade and fraud, said Zhang.

PUNISHMENT

Chen Hui,the creator of the largest pornographic website in the country was cracked and arrested by the police,last November. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.The website Chen started contained more than 9 million pornographic images and articles and had more than 600,000 registered users.