Automated filtering software are bound to have their bugs... In this case, the software that the Chinese government wants to use to censor the itnernet thinks images of pigs are actually pornography!
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In China, this photo may be porn
A ham-handed directive illustrates the depths of Beijing's digital dilemma.
It's right there for any man, woman or child to see: a naked couple cavorts, bare limbs draped seductively across the frame, their fleshy faces pressed together like a couple of animals. Clearly, this image is pornographic.
Or so says the Chinese government's latest attempt to regulate the internet.
If that sounds stupid, it's because it is. But by potentially treating these porcine pixels as "harmful material for the public," Beijing is straining under a self-imposed digital dilemma: how to promote the internet to boost economic growth and efficiency, while allowing the central government to maintain some degree of control over Chinese society.
If pigs are porn, then clearly the strategy still has some kinks. (More on that in a moment.)
This past week, the Chinese government issued a sweeping directive: Beginning July 1 every personal computer sold in the country must include new software that filters pornography and other content from the view of China's 300 million internet users.
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