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Another case of human flesh search engine, also the power of networked users

Below are lots of news story about the official sex harassment scandal in Shenzhen:
Official who misbehaved with 11-yr-old girl, sacked
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Times of India, India
BEIJING: For three days, a large section of internet users saw video clips of a senior official fondling a scared 11-year old girl at a restaurant in the *…*
Shenzhen official cleared of [...]

CNNIC’s China Youth Internet Behavior report 2007

From Kaiser Kuo:
CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center ) issued the report last month. That’s not surprising given that all the data were drawn from the research for that report. But it does drill down a bit into the under-25 set’s behavior. Reading through it I highlighted a few items that are worth pondering, for [...]

Lost in Beijing finally gets killed

SARFT’s off to a running start this year with its first film ban.
Shortly before the end of 2007, the Administration issued a notice banning pornographic films—those that contain “rape, prostitution, and explicit sex”—from competing in festivals. Lost in Beijing (苹果), whose international version contains rape, prostitution, and explicit sex scenes (at least by mainland standards), [...]

“very yellow, very violent”

[translated by www.zonaeuropa.com]
“The last time that I got on the Internet to search for information, a web page popped up suddenly. It was very yellow (i.e. erotic), very violent. I hastily closed the page.” This is what Beijing elementary school student Zhang Shufan said [...]