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E-smut crusaders close 200 local sites
By Ding Yining |
January 16, 2009, Friday
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MORE than 200 Shanghai-based Websites have been shut down for providing "lewd" content since a nationwide campaign to sanitize the Internet was launched on January 5, according to the city's cyber watchdog.
Most of the shuttered sites were small in scale but contained large amounts of vulgar material, officials said.
Tv.mofile.com, a city-based Youtube-like Website that provides videos and photo uploads, was temporarily closed as a result of its large amount of pornographic videos, authorities said.
An announcement on the site's main page said the operators were "deeply sorry" for the forbidden images and said customers who continue to upload pornographic videos would be banned from the Website.
The site said it will return to service after the offending content is removed.
In addition to the shutdowns, more than 35,000 "vulgar" entries were deleted by Websites that are still operating. The forbidden content was mostly pornographic pictures.
"These Websites were quick to remove vulgar content since they didn't want to be disconnected and lose their readers and advertising income," an official surnamed Zheng at the Information Security Office of the Shanghai Communications Administration told Shanghai Daily yesterday.
"Some Websites also contained pornographic passages in purported love stories, which could do a lot of harm to teenage viewers," Zheng said.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said yesterday that at least 500 Websites have been closed down across China since the anti-smut campaign began.
In addition, authorities have posted the names of 50 Websites that were told to remove vulgar content. Among the offenders were major search engines including Baidu.com and Google.com and Web portals like Sina.com and Sohu.com. These Websites posted apologies and said they would continue their efforts to remove vulgar content.
Six of the Websites are based in Shanghai, including MSN China and 99you.com, a news and games provider.
Most of the shuttered sites were small in scale but contained large amounts of vulgar material, officials said.
Tv.mofile.com, a city-based Youtube-like Website that provides videos and photo uploads, was temporarily closed as a result of its large amount of pornographic videos, authorities said.
An announcement on the site's main page said the operators were "deeply sorry" for the forbidden images and said customers who continue to upload pornographic videos would be banned from the Website.
The site said it will return to service after the offending content is removed.
In addition to the shutdowns, more than 35,000 "vulgar" entries were deleted by Websites that are still operating. The forbidden content was mostly pornographic pictures.
"These Websites were quick to remove vulgar content since they didn't want to be disconnected and lose their readers and advertising income," an official surnamed Zheng at the Information Security Office of the Shanghai Communications Administration told Shanghai Daily yesterday.
"Some Websites also contained pornographic passages in purported love stories, which could do a lot of harm to teenage viewers," Zheng said.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said yesterday that at least 500 Websites have been closed down across China since the anti-smut campaign began.
In addition, authorities have posted the names of 50 Websites that were told to remove vulgar content. Among the offenders were major search engines including Baidu.com and Google.com and Web portals like Sina.com and Sohu.com. These Websites posted apologies and said they would continue their efforts to remove vulgar content.
Six of the Websites are based in Shanghai, including MSN China and 99you.com, a news and games provider.
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