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From: William F. Wager, Jr.2/20/2008 11:39:21 AM
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China Group Censures Baidu Over Photos

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HONG KONG — China’s top Internet search engine, Baidu.com, has been censured by a governmentsponsored watchdog for allegedly helping spread sexually explicit photos that appear to feature several Hong Kong stars.
The photos appear to show actor Edison Chen and several female stars. Believed to have originated in Hong Kong, the photos have circulated widely.
News of the scandal has dominated Hong Kong headlines for weeks.
China keeps tighter watch over the Internet than semiautonomous Hong Kong. The government-sponsored Beijing Association of Online Media said in a statement Tuesday that Baidu BIDU helped spread the racy pictures in the mainland.
The group said certain key word searches and certain pages on the Baidu site “have become the platform for displaying and spreading these filthy pictures.”
“While other Beijing Internet companies have boycotted the spread of the racy photos, Baidu still hasn’t implemented effective blocking and obscuring of the photos and has become defensive and procrastinated, leading to the stagnation of a large amount of pornographic, filthy pictures,” the watchdog said in the statement.
China bans pornography, but it struggles to block pornographic Web sites based abroad. The government regularly censors and restricts access to content it considers subversive or politically sensitive.
Baidu said it didn’t have immediate comment.
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