China clamps down on web smut

According to the paper, so-called Virtual Cops - not gun-totin' Virtua Cops - will be assigned to web duty, monitoring fun things like pornography, gambling and the like, then wiping them off the face of the Chinese 'net.

MPS Vice minister, Zhang Xinfeng, told Xinhua that "the existence of these problems has affected the healthy development of the Internet, brought harm to the youths' minds, contaminated the social ethos and disrupted the social order."

Naughty internet stuff will be heavily cracked down upon over the next six months, says the MPS. China last year successfully locked away porno-peddler Chen Hui for life for his website, however, it is still suspected by top government think tanks that Chinese youth may occasionally still think about sex. µ