The Chinese Government Shut Down 41% Of The Country's Websites In 2010
The Chinese Government Shut Down 41% Of The Country's Websites In 2010
Posted 07/13/2011 at 12:07pm
| by Brad Chacos
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China's a great place to go if you want to find a company to manufacture some hardware components, but it's a little less awesome if you want to, say, blog about making those components. The country's ramped up its assault on the Internet over the past few years, jailing "immoral" citizens and shutting down websites left and right. Now, China's bragging about its heavy-handedness; the country boasts that its iron grip strangled the life out of over 1.3 million websites last year alone.
The regulatory chopping block devastated the face of the Chinese Internet. The country's Academy of Social Sciences – we'll call it "ASS" – told BBC News that the shutdowns resulted in a 41 percent decrease of the total number of Chinese websites by the end of 2010. Despite the crackdown, ASS spokesman Liu Ruisheng claimed China enjoyed a "high level of freedom of online speech."
Even though almost half of all Chinese websites were culled from the Net last year, the survivors churned out new work at a break-neck pace: the total number of Chinese web pages available skyrocketed by 79 percent. "This means our content is getting stronger, while our supervision is getting more strict and more regulated," the ASS spokesman argued, presumably to the derisive laughter of the BBC reporter.
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Keith E. Whisman
July 14, 2011 at 5:31am
Gotta put a curb on personal financial success and limit it to only the few that are willing to pay top dollar for exclusivity, you know, willing to pay the right people to remove all competition.
Neufeldt2002
July 13, 2011 at 2:50pm
This, to me, is where Anon and the like should be focusing their attention.
lindethier
July 13, 2011 at 7:38pm
I might actually have some respect for Anon and others if they started doing that.
fellowleo
July 13, 2011 at 2:18pm
Hmm... I wonder how much of it is whack-a-mole.
If you shutdown a website and it pops back up under a different name/host and you shut it down again, did you shutdown one site or two?
KenLV
July 13, 2011 at 12:50pm
“This means our content is getting stronger, while our supervision is getting more strict and more regulated," the ASS spokesman argued, presumably to the derisive laughter of the BBC reporter.”
Kinda like how the People of North Korea are “getting stronger” because the weak and “immoral” are dying from starvation?
I wonder if the general public WITHIN China can pull up an uncensored copy of the BBC article? I doubt it since they routinely block the BBC’s Chinese language site.
Brad Chacos
July 13, 2011 at 5:45pm
No, but he did dash out of the room in search of a kidnapped dolphin. Laces out, Dan!
Darkside
July 13, 2011 at 12:45pm
I'm not surprised to hear that they shut down that many websites just because of how much we've heard about the Chinese cracking down on Internet usage.
MaximumMike
July 13, 2011 at 12:31pm
So Holly,
Want to justify your favorite communist country here?
I know its wrong to feed you, but I can't wait to be entertained by what you're going to say. Please make your response obnoxious, nonsensical, and hilarious as usual.
don2041
July 13, 2011 at 12:24pm
If western nations shut down all the porn sites they would be in the millions too. Also a large number of virises and other threats would be eliminated at the same time.
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