media - Sex, bloggers and a crackdown

Crackdowns, sex and the internet come together in this article published in the British daily The Independent. While an ideal mixture to fabricate and interesting story for an ignorant audience, it displays such a level of ignorance that I decided to comment on it; mostly I try to ignore this level of nonsense. But in this article too much ignorance comes together.
I do not try to debunk every untrue story, but here are half a dozen:

1.There is no reason to assume that sex bloggers have triggered off efforts of the Chinese government to further its control over cyberspace; earlier famous sex bloggers got even a very friendly and open reception by the traditional media who used their popularity to discuss sex-related issues.
2.The internet population of China is no longer growing by millions each month but by millions each year. Growth of the number of internet users started to slow down last years after in the bigger cities, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou more than half of the households got connected to the internet. Growth figures are dramatically down.
3.The authorities have not hired web watch dogs to monitor anonymously what the ‘netizens’ are reading about. They routinely outsource this work to operators themselves who deploy a system of key word filters and ‘volunteers’ to watch discussions. Figures on the number of internet police (varying from 30,000 to 50,0000 are fabricated by the Chinese propaganda machine to show how the government is doing everything to protect their people from evil.
4. The Ministry of Culture is not responsible for overseeing the internet; a large group of government offices meddles in here, mostly on a local level, and the ministry of culture is compared to other official parties a rather hapless ministry.
5. The central committee of the communist party is not in charge of issuing orders to specific blog-hosting providers but local police authorities in the place where the service is hosted would perform that task if deemed necessary.
6. Traditional media have always been after the Japanese for the way they have been dealing with their historical record during World War II; earlier this year the internet was indeed the main cause for the short-lived demonstrations.