China to tighten online porn control

时间：2007-06-28 01:34:21

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BEIJING, June 27-- China Telecom, the country's major telecommunications operator, vowed2 on Tuesday to tighten3 monitoring of service providers on its Vnet.cn website after an online adult movie scandal.

 

Last week, a user surnamed Qiao brought a lawsuit4 against the website's Hunan channel for providing "a great deal of" pornographic movies, as reported by China Youth Daily on June 21.

 

Immediately following the report, the channel's operator, Hunan Telecom, terminated relations with the service provider, Hunan Hexun Technology Co., and blacklisted the company, said a statement from China Telecom.

 

Meanwhile, managers of the channel's operating center were suspended, said the statement.

 

China Telecom said it would set up inspection5 teams inside the company and in its provincial6 units, adopt a real-time monitoring method and welcome public supervision7.

 

Some local telecommunication1 firms ignored the responsibility of censoring8 content provided by their partners, which was the main cause of the incident, said Wang Yongzhen, a China Telecom executive.

 

China Telecom would accelerate building of its information security technology platform for Vnet.cn and adopt an automatic identification and filtering system for online pornography, said Yang Keke, general manager of the company's Internet and value-added service department.

 

"But technically9, it is quite difficult for us to accurately10 identify pornographic pictures and videos, which are different from text information," said Yang.

 

China lacked a law specifically defining online pornography, so some service providers were able to take advantage of loopholes in the rules and regulations, he added.

 

The government had stepped up anti-pornography efforts since April in a campaign targeting illegal online activities such as distributing pornographic material and organizing strip shows, to purge11 the web of sexually explicit12 images, stories, and audio and video clips.

 

By mid-May, Chinese police had dealt with 244 cases and arrested 270 people in connection with online pornography.

 

The number of Internet users in China reached 123 million in mid-2006. About 15 percent, or 18 million, are under the age of 18.

 
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1 telecommunication 5gMzg5     
n.电信，远距离通信
参考例句：
  • Telecommunication is an industry of service.电信业是一个服务型的行业。
  • I only care about the telecommunication quality and the charge.我只关心通信质量和资费两个方面。
2 vowed 6996270667378281d2f9ee561353c089     
起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）
参考例句：
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
3 tighten 9oYwI     
v.(使)变紧；(使)绷紧
参考例句：
  • Turn the screw to the right to tighten it.向右转动螺钉把它拧紧。
  • Some countries tighten monetary policy to avoid inflation.一些国家实行紧缩银根的货币政策，以避免通货膨胀。
4 lawsuit A14xy     
n.诉讼，控诉
参考例句：
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
5 inspection y6TxG     
n.检查，审查，检阅
参考例句：
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
6 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
7 supervision hr6wv     
n.监督，管理
参考例句：
  • The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
  • The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。
8 censoring f99e26b89c3bccea4488dde3213fb617     
删剪（书籍、电影等中被认为犯忌、违反道德或政治上危险的内容）( censor的现在分词 )
参考例句：
  • Therefore, exhibitors shall not make use of these materials before censoring. 展商在审查前不可使用这些资料。
  • The company then said it would end self-censoring search results, putting it at odds with Beijing. 随后该公司表示，将停止自我审查搜索结果，从而与中国政府发生对抗。
9 technically wqYwV     
adv.专门地，技术上地
参考例句：
  • Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
  • The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。
10 accurately oJHyf     
adv.准确地，精确地
参考例句：
  • It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
  • Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
11 purge QS1xf     
n.整肃，清除，泻药，净化；vt.净化，清除，摆脱；vi.清除，通便，腹泻，变得清洁
参考例句：
  • The new president carried out a purge of disloyal army officers.新总统对不忠诚的军官进行了清洗。
  • The mayoral candidate has promised to purge the police department.市长候选人答应清洗警察部门。
12 explicit IhFzc     
adj.详述的，明确的；坦率的；显然的
参考例句：
  • She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
  • He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。

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