And she does not sing “Poker Face”: it’s: “Liar’s Face”

China is getting paranoid, obviously bureaucrats realize some people are really upset with “certain issues”. Like the milk scandal, the new-rich, the astronomical greed by the real estate sector (read: those who have the right guanxi), worker’s exploitation (slavery is sometimes a better word). Too many things people are not supposed to talk about.
One can wonder if they will succeed to stem the flow. The clever people find a way around the New Great Wall. But others are happy to remain uninformed as they only care about playing computer games and … discovering carnal pleasures.
See here part of article dated 12 February 2010, “Innocent websites suffer in Beijing’s anti-porn push” by Stephen Chen in the SCMP:
More than 130,000 websites have been closed in the mainland’s crackdown on internet pornography, although less than 12% of them were actually pornographic.
The figures, buried in a Xinhua report meant to hail the success of the anti-porn campaign, prove a long-held suspicion that the central government is using pornography as a pretext to suppress Web freedom.
Since December, the Communist Party’s Central Committee has ordered the country’s state-owned internet service providers, such as China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, to examine every website on their servers, an anonymous senior party official in charge of cyberspace told Xinhua.
The official said the telecommunications operators sniffed through more than 1.8 million websites. By Wednesday, more than 136,000 had been shut down.
Among them, “16,000 contained pornographic or sexually explicit contents, and among these, 11,000 were accessible by mobile phones”, the official was quoted as saying.
Porn-free websites were shut down because they were not “officially registered”.
Mainland internet regulations require websites to apply for a government certificate before opening to the public. The process is time-consuming and often abused by corrupt government officials. For years, many small websites, especially non-commercial ones built and maintained by individuals, have skipped the registration process.
At about the same time that the anti-pornography campaign was launched, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced an amendment to the registration regulation. An individual citizen who did not have a business licence or government approval was no longer eligible to register.