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China blocks Google in "war" against porn
July 26, 2004
Beijing - Beijing has blocked 988 overseas websites and shut down 67 local ones
as part of a nationwide campaign to weed out pornographic content on the
Internet.
The websites shut down during the July 6-21 special operation included Hong
Kong websites. The popular search tool Google was also inaccessible this week.
So far, the Chinese capital has arrested 13 people suspected of operating the
websites, the Beijing Youth Daily said.
Police received 10,660 tips from the public, a majority of which were
complaints about inappropriate sexual content on the Internet. Other complaints
involved pornographic mobile phone short messages, the report said.
The central Chinese government this month launched a "people's war" against
pornography on the Internet, giving websites a deadline until September to rid
themselves of indecent content or lose their license to publish decent
material, such as news.
Officials have so far identified 500 websites across China that carry
pornographic pictures and film clips, the China Daily reported.
Hundreds of websites, including the most influential ones, publish "indecent or
even pornographic content" to attract users, the Xinhua news agency had
reported.
The crackdown on Internet porn reflects two top concerns of the Chinese
leadership, about the ethical standards of the young and about the subversive
potential of the Internet.
With 80 million registered users in China, the government is finding it
increasingly difficult to control the Internet, but that has not stopped it
from trying.
State media reported last month that the government had suspended the
registration of new Internet cafes, following a three-month sweep in which it
closed 16,000 existing ones.
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