China recruits volunteer net porn police • The Register “The Chinese government plans to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers by the end of the year to report ‘lewd’ content and ‘uncivilized’ behavior on the internet.

Government-run news agency Xinhua reports volunteers will be registered under the auspices of China’s Capital Civic Enhancement Committee Office (CCECO). The government will also enlist ‘supervision volunteers’ to patrol internet cafes for vulgar content and to prevent minors from accessing the computers.”

There will be long queues of “Volunteers” for the job. The Chinese government has announced plans to block some Chinese language results on Google.
Xinhua reports government officials summoned the executive in charge of Google China on Thursday to reprimand the business in person. The official apparently apologized for the porn and vowed prompt action to rectify the problem.

Google and Baidu (China’s dominant search engine) were also both publicly shamed in January over porno links. The flogging was part of a larger government crackdown on internet pornography, which has thus far resulted in more than one thousand web sites getting blocked by Chinese authorities.