Online smut crackdown
Source: Xinhua |
October 28, 2009, Wednesday
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CHINESE authorities have banned 1,414 works of online writing on the grounds that they were pornographic in a nationwide campaign to eradicate lewd content from the Internet, the General Administration of Press and Publication said in a statement yesterday.
About 30,000 Web links to the banned works and 20 online literature Websites were closed after scrutiny of about 4,000 literature Websites by more than 50 experts organized by the GAPP since January, the statement said.
The works either "included pornographic content," "used provocative or privacy-violating titles to draw attention," or "blatantly talked about one-night stands, wife swapping, sex abuse and violence that disregarded common decency," the GAPP said.
The administration would establish laws on the publishing of literature online, the statement said.
The move is the latest in a string of drives to crack down on pornographic and lewd content on the Internet.
In June, the government ordered all new personal computers produced or sold in China after July 1 to carry "Green Dam-Youth Escort," a filtering software designed to block pornographic content.
About 30,000 Web links to the banned works and 20 online literature Websites were closed after scrutiny of about 4,000 literature Websites by more than 50 experts organized by the GAPP since January, the statement said.
The works either "included pornographic content," "used provocative or privacy-violating titles to draw attention," or "blatantly talked about one-night stands, wife swapping, sex abuse and violence that disregarded common decency," the GAPP said.
The administration would establish laws on the publishing of literature online, the statement said.
The move is the latest in a string of drives to crack down on pornographic and lewd content on the Internet.
In June, the government ordered all new personal computers produced or sold in China after July 1 to carry "Green Dam-Youth Escort," a filtering software designed to block pornographic content.
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