China’s “Cleaning of the Web,” a nationwide crackdown on Internet porn that has been linked to the deletion of more than 100 websites, appears to be driving down the country’s stocks trading in New York.
The prominent state-run Chinese newspapers Xinhua and the Global Times published stills from a porn movie that they believed depicted an inhumane execution.
Passers-by got a surprise porn screening when a maintenance worker accidentally played the banned film on a giant LED screen outside a Chinese railway station.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created an advanced tool to help government organizations and webmasters detect pornography and "lewd" material on the Internet.