China Cracks Down on Porn, Shuts Down 60,000 Websites
China Cracks Down on Porn, Shuts Down 60,000 Websites
Posted 01/04/2011 at 5:16am
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China believes it's been making progress in censoring lewd content from the Web. Since launching an aggressive crackdown in December 2009, China has shut down over 60,000 porn websites, according to the country's state-run Xinhua News agency.
"Our campaign has been a great success and this has not been achieved easily," said Wang Chen, head of the State Council Information Office. "We have made the Internet environment much cleaner than before as there was a lot of pornography available."
It isn't just pornographic websites that China's been targeting. Xinhua claims law enforcement officials across China have destroyed some 36.39 million copies of pirated or illegal publications, audio, and video discs, Xinhua reports.
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Keith E. Whisman
January 04, 2011 at 5:55pm
Thats just wrong. Just how in the world are they going to get by day by day without Brazillian fart porn. This just shows how terrible communism really is. President Hu Jintao bring down this wall of communism and internet censorship.
Peanut Fox
January 04, 2011 at 12:14pm
RIOT IN THE STREETZ!!
That's all I can imagine will come of this. Up next: alcohol and gambling because you're not adult enough to moderate yourself.
Keith E. Whisman
January 04, 2011 at 5:56pm
You realize of course that Obama wants the same laws for the USA as well.
Peanut Fox
January 06, 2011 at 1:41pm
Obama can want all he wants. As long as I pay taxes I'll do as I please.
foxy102
January 04, 2011 at 6:47am
do they want men to start raping women?? there is 117 men for evrey 100 women
ShyLinuxGuy
January 04, 2011 at 6:39am
Aren't some of us lucky we aren't in China?! At least there won't be many p0rn addicts there, as there is here.
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