60,000 porn sites shut down by China
By Ben Blanchard |
December 31, 2010, Friday
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CHINA shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year, netting almost 5,000 suspects in the process, a government spokesman said yesterday.
He said there would be no let-up in the campaign against material deemed obscene.
Wang Chen, head of the State Council Information Office, told a news conference: "Our campaign has been a great success and this has not been achieved easily. We have made the Internet environment much cleaner than before as there was a lot of pornography available.
"We have changed this situation, and this has been well received by many sectors across society," Wang said. "But our campaign has not come to a stop. This will be a long battle.
"As long as there are people with bad motives who want to spread violent or pornographic information, we will have to continue our campaign to resolutely crack down on the spread of such information."
Of the 4,965 suspects, 1,332 people had received "criminal punishment" with 58 jailed for five years or more, Wang said.
The government had checked the content of 1.79 million websites and deleted 350 million pornographic and lewd articles, pictures and video footage, he said.
Wang told reporters he had seen media reports that Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg visited China recently, but said Zuckerberg had not met his department, which oversees the Internet in China.
China's number of Internet users, already the world's largest, rose more than 20 percent to 450 million this year, more than a third of the country's population, he said.
He said there would be no let-up in the campaign against material deemed obscene.
Wang Chen, head of the State Council Information Office, told a news conference: "Our campaign has been a great success and this has not been achieved easily. We have made the Internet environment much cleaner than before as there was a lot of pornography available.
"We have changed this situation, and this has been well received by many sectors across society," Wang said. "But our campaign has not come to a stop. This will be a long battle.
"As long as there are people with bad motives who want to spread violent or pornographic information, we will have to continue our campaign to resolutely crack down on the spread of such information."
Of the 4,965 suspects, 1,332 people had received "criminal punishment" with 58 jailed for five years or more, Wang said.
The government had checked the content of 1.79 million websites and deleted 350 million pornographic and lewd articles, pictures and video footage, he said.
Wang told reporters he had seen media reports that Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg visited China recently, but said Zuckerberg had not met his department, which oversees the Internet in China.
China's number of Internet users, already the world's largest, rose more than 20 percent to 450 million this year, more than a third of the country's population, he said.
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