Great Firewall of China - porn-spotting

Here is a job worth doing… porn spotting; the far more attractive, outgoing and well liked cousin of train spotting.

A college student in China who said his studies suffered after he discovered Internet porn was awarded 1,466 dollars for helping the government crack down on sexual content online.
The student reported 32 websites that contained pornography, winning a nationwide contest that has encouraged web-surfers to hunt down porn – Well OK then, if you insist.

I would like to take this film a few reels back…Can you imagine the anguish of this student before deciding to come forward with this er problem, for lack of a better word, sitting eating chow mien, or roast dog or whatever, thinking…I wonder if I should tell people the real reason why I didn’t get into college?

"In the past, when I was in middle school, I used to get grades that were good enough to enter a really good university," the young man said.

"It is because of the influence of pornography on the Internet that I was only able to go to junior college," said the student.

Officials have offered rewards to Internet users who report pornographic websites. In the first month of the effort, nearly 62,000 websites were reported, an indication that a hefty number of web users were on the lookout for porn. LOL go figure…such brave souls these porn hunters…As Steve Erwin the original crocodile hunter once said: " "Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Where I live if someone gives you a hug it`s from the heart."

Chinese authorities arrested more than 5,000 people in a crackdown on Internet pornography in 2009, officials said earlier this year. China has at least 338 million online users.