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		<title>Of dildos, cybersquatters and UNAIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always dangerous to mix your coms with your orgs. In China, a link from the UNAIDS site takes you to a classic sex cybersquat: it offers links to dildos, fetish and swinger sites. All because the url for the Beijing Association of STD &#038; AIDS Prevention and Control, bjaidsass.com, has &#8220;ass&#8221; in it. (With [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s always dangerous to mix your coms with your orgs. In China, a link from the <a href="http://www.unaids.org.cn/en/index/contacts.asp?id=175&#038;class=2&#038;classname=Reference+Websites">UNAIDS site</a> takes you to a  <a href="http://www.bjaidsass.com/handcrafted2.asp">classic sex cybersquat</a>: it offers links to dildos, fetish and swinger sites. All because the url for the Beijing Association of STD &#038; AIDS Prevention and Control, <a href="http://www.bjaidsass.com/handcrafted2.asp">bjaidsass.com</a>,  has &#8220;ass&#8221; in it. (With a url that includes the word whores I am, as you might imagine, sensitive to this kind of thing.)</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.bjaidsass.org/">Association&#8217;s real site</a> is, at a glance, not fantastically more informative than the squatters. We have &#8220;men-with-bad-haircuts-in-front-of-red-banner-at-conference&#8221;, which film directors will recognise as the statutory Chinese Location Identifier shot (example from my own archives of bum-numbing boredom below). We have a dandelion, an oak tree and a happy Western couple. None of it really relevant to the gay party scene that is currently driving the epidemic in Beijing. I ran a search on the site for the word &#8220;gay&#8221; (同性恋) to see if I was missing something, but no.</p>
<p>UNAIDS&#8217;s cyberslip-up was brought to my attention by <a href="http://www.aimeebarnes.com">Aimee Barnes</a>, who also has an interesting post on China&#8217;s (in my reading of the data unsubstantiated) obssession with <a href="http://www.aimeebarnes.com/blog/?p=174">migrant labour as a driver of the HIV epidemic</a> in China. What Aimee did not point out was the deliciously apposite tagline at the top of the <a href="http://www.bjaidsass.com/handcrafted2.asp">bjaidsass.com</a> site: <strong>Look for the ridiculous in everything! </strong></p>
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