Good on China.
Mainland China deleted more than three million pieces of pornographic content from the internet last year as part of a campaign to cleanse the country's online sphere.
Zhou Huilin, a deputy director of the National Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications Office, said his office had been "remarkably effective" last year, Xinhua reported yesterday.
The mainland has been cracking down on internet porn for a decade, and has been stepping up its oversight of the web in recent months.
In 2006, a 28-year-old man who ran the country's most popular pornographic website community, with up to 600,000 members, was sentenced to life in prison.
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China deletes millions of porn files in bid to cleanse the web South China Morning Post
China makes a good steps towards a higher culture of their citizens. However our politicians prefer to take part in shooting porn. May be they want to show how they will punish infringers. But Obama tries to provide cybersecurity. He seems to hide smth.
"After the recent data breach at Sony Pictures, the issue of cybersecurity is making a comeback on Capitol Hill — for better and for worse.
During a speech at the Federal Trade Commission on Monday, President Barack Obama revealed some "spoilers" for next week's State of the Union address, including a proposal for a "single, strong national standard" requiring corporations to notify customers within 30 days when their personal information is compromised. The president also said he would craft a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights," as well as introduce legislation that would prevent companies from monetizing data collected from students using computers and apps in the classroom.
"As Americans we shouldn't have to forfeit our basic privacy when we go online to do our business," the president said during his speech at the FTC. "We pioneered the Internet, but we also pioneered the Bill of Rights and a sense that each of us as individuals have a sphere of privacy around us that should not be breached, whether by our government, but also by commercial interests."
It's a welcome gesture in light of the millions of people compromised by recent computer breaches at major retail giants, such as Target, Home Depot and Neiman Marcus. But apart from the question of whether the measures will pass in the new Republican-controlled Congress, Obama's good intentions are overshadowed by more troubling aspects of Washington's cybersecurity push — namely, the revival of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a twice-stalled bill that has been roundly condemned by privacy and security advocates.
Obama threatened to veto CISPA the last two times it passed in the House, but this time could be different. During a speech today at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), the president urged Congress to pass a similar cyber-sharing bill, which would encourage private firms to share data with the government, including privacy guidelines for "removing unnecessary personal information."
