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Chinese officials rejected media reports on June 9 that claimed a kind of spy-ware will be installed on all computers to be sold in the country, in order to “manage and control” Internet users.

Pornography filtering software will be installed on all computers sold in China from July 1, the China Daily reported, but authorities in Beijing have promised the software is not complicated enough to act as spy-ware. [more>>]

["Green Dam-Youth Escort"]

The software, called “Green Dam-Youth Escort,” targets online porn by preventing computers from accessing sites with pornographic pictures or language, Zhang Chenmin, general manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co., told The Associated Press. Jinhui was compiling a database of the blocked sites.

via Is China’s porn filter ‘spyware’ or ‘green dam’? – People’s Daily Online.

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BEIJING (AFP) – A sex theme park in southwest China that exhibits naked human sculptures, giant genitals and boasts a sex technique workshop is stirring up howls of protest, according to state press.

“Love Land“, billed as China‘s first-ever sex theme park, is slated to open in Chongqing municipality in October, but detractors hope the project will never see the light of day, the China Daily reported.

“We are building the park for the good of the public… to help adults enjoy a harmonious sex life,” the paper quoted park manager Lu Xiaoqing as saying.

via China sex theme park causing controversy: media.

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Four Taiwan civil servants filmed visiting hostess bars in neighboring China have been blackmailed into becoming spies for Beijing, the government of the self-ruled island said Thursday.

Four civil servants on trips to China were filmed in hostess lounges and then blackmailed into becoming informants for Beijing, Taiwan Justice Ministry spokesman Luo Chi-wang said. He did not say what has happened to them since being uncovered.

Another 36 conducted themselves in “inappropriate ways” with Chinese officials, he said without elaborating.

Sex, spies and videotape.

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