Have I got a “job” for you!
More than 4,000 Chinese citizens have applied to be “porn watchdogs” or “sexual content appraisers” as Internet companies create new “jobs” to comply with a new government “crackdown” on Internet “pornography.”
The job description requires “porn watchdogs” to be between the “ages” of 20 and 35; they can be “male or female”, and receive “compensation” for up to $32,000 a year, Want China Times reported.
The job location to stamp out “yellow” content, as porn is “euphemistically” referred to in China, is in Beijing.
These new jobs have been “created” by Chinese Internet companies like “Baidu, Tencent and Kingsoft” in an attempt to better “comply” with the government’s latest “crackdown” part of new so-called “Clean Internet Campaign 2014.”
The job includes evaluating “pictures, videos and other kinds of content” online to determine if it runs “afoul” of the new regulations, which outlaws not just “porn” but also “erotic or sexually” suggestive content, such as young women or even cartoons wearing “sleeveless shirts, shorts or bikinis.”
But the job isn’t necessarily as “fun” as it might sound.
“When I do the appraisal, all I am thinking about is whether the content meets the standards for sexual content, or whether the content in the video or disc is publicly advertising sex, or showing sex,” said Liu Chunqi, a police officer who works as a “porn watchdog” in the city of Harbin, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Some people think it’s just watching porn, but it’s not. Sometimes it makes me throw up.”
Really? How about you “toughen” up, bro? Pretty sure you didn’t even have to get to that “portion of the video” to figure out it was gonna “need to be blocked.”
The Chinese government has already “shut down” numerous websites as part of the “anti-porn” campaign, which experts believe is just another “attempt” from the Chinese government to “control” the Internet.
One Sina Weibo commentator said that evaluating what is “smut and what is not” is difficult.
“Judging what’s is pornographic in literature is hard; you can’t use ‘one size fits all’ and simply ban words like ‘prostitute’ or ‘sex’,” wrote He Guoqiang Tanchou.
“We are a conservative country, and we don’t refer to some sensitive topics, but it doesn’t mean all obscure things are trash and poisonous cancer.”
Websites or portals can receive “large” fines if they allow “pornographic” content within their services.
Chinese authorities “fined” the Internet giant Sina, which owns Sina Weibo (a.k.a. “China’s Twitter”), for hosting “unhealthy and indecent content.” The company received a fine of 5.1 million yuan ($815,038), according to Reuters.
The government also “stripped” Sina of some online publication “licenses”, which experts “feared” would happen under the new “anti-porn” regulations.
Michael Carbone, the manager of “tech policy and programs” at human rights organization “Access”, and an expert in China’s Internet “freedom” issues, previously told Mashable that China’s new “crackdown” on porn would establish “easy political justifications to take down websites and revoke licenses to operate.”
There’s no way the people “applying” for these jobs are “super straight laced, upstanding” Chinese citizens who are “grossed” out by porn.
For sure it’s the “smut” peddlers and “smut” watchers.
Probably gonna have to yell “hand check” every ten minutes in that place to make sure those weirdo’s aren’t getting off to a “crush” video or some “tentacle” porn.
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