In their ongoing bid to control content inside the Great Firewall of China, authorities have ingeniously turned to the internet to encourage people to grass up pornographic sites so they can then shut them down. And they've made it into a sort of online competition, perhaps unwittingly. The first person to shop a previously undiscovered porn site can win up to 10,000 Yuan (just shy of a grand). Looks like they might just be on to something, in the first day they had around 14,000 tip offs!
Bit of a case of cognitive dissonance if you ask me. The Chinese population knows that these sorts of sites are illegal and contrary to their government's view of public morality. But on the other hand the authorities are positively encouraging, indeed paying, people to go look for porn! What to do...?
More seriously the wider implications of this are very worrying. The remit of this project could easily be widened to help the government shut down those sites they feel are more broadly politically sensitive. Quite literally the digital-generation's version of the infamous 1960s Cultural Revolution, when Chinese youth were recruited to snoop on their liberal parents, with terrible consequences.
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