BEIJING — A man on the street is interviewed on Chinese news. He suggests that searching for and watching porn online will cause memory loss.
Yeah, right. It happens to everyone Googling for porn and visiting sites. But some viewers got curious and did a little searching of their own.
According to BoingBoing, the speaker who appearing on China's state-run CCTV—identified as a student named Gao—was actually an intern for the TV outlet.
In the “interview” he claimed a fellow student became too curious about porn, visited sites and became “absent-minded for a while.”
The fake news was revealed when it was discovered that Gao’s personal page on the Chinese social networking site Xiaonei.com indicated he worked for CCTV when the interview was conducted. Guess he was absent-minded about that.
The staged interview shouldn’t come as a surprise in the wake of China’s push for greater Internet censorship all this year, culminating with plans to mandate the installation of “Green Dam” filtering software in all computers sold in the country.
