For an officially atheist country, China is kind of a prude (hello angry commenters, it’s just a joke!). Pornography in any form is illegal here; that’s part of why so many mainland tourists flocked to Hong Kong to see 3D Sex and Zen when that came out. Regular websites are easy enough to filter, but mobile sites have had an easier time slipping through the cracks. Until now, that is.
China Mobile has apparently been cracking down on these sites over the past few months, and its numbers are impressive. As of the end of February, it had apparently blocked 544,709 mobile porn domains. That’s an awful lot of porn. Most of it wasn’t domestic, though; apparently 98.8 percent of the domains blocked were foreign.
The company has been able to achieve such impressive numbers thanks to a new automated “smart” system that is apparently highly efficient. It’s not clear exactly how the tech works, but with 500,000+ domains blocked, it’s clearly doing something. Is the mobile porn in China becoming a thing of the past? Probably. But somehow, I suspect that China’s porn fans will continue to find ways to, er, penetrate the firewalls.
[CNII via Sina Tech]
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