China Pays Rewards for Finding Porn

The Chinese government does not like internet porn. So they are now paying people to surf the web to find it. Makes sense, no?

Shocking as it may sound, this well thought out government plan has actually encouraged people to search for porn more than before. Within 24 hours of the government announcing its incentive program, the Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center received more than 500 phone calls and 13,000 online responses, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.

The Chinese censors are offering as much as 10,000 yuan – nearly $1,500 U.S. dollars (!) – to the first person who reports a sexually obscene site. Sign me up!

This is only the latest round in China’s attempt to weed out evil porn sites. Earlier this year Chinese authorities publicly sanctioned Google for not filtering out porn from its search results. Of course, seasoned porn hounds know that Microsoft’s Bing is the best search engine for porn.

However, the government has backed down – for now – from a program known as Green Dam, which would have installed monitoring software on every computer sold in the country. A small step for porn, a giant leap for horny Chinese men.

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