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China's porn war nets 13 arrests
July 27, 2004
China has blocked 988 overseas websites and shut down 67 local ones as part of
a nationwide campaign to weed out pornographic internet content.
Websites shut down during the July 6-21 special operation included some based
in Hong Kong.
Popular search tool Google was inaccessible.
So far, Beijing police have arrested 13 people suspected of operating the
websites, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Police received 10,660 tips from the public, most of which were complaints
about inappropriate sexual content online.
Other complaints related to short pornographic messages on mobile phones, the
report said.
The Chinese government, which launched the "people's war" against pornography
on the internet this month, has given websites a September deadline to rid
themselves of indecent content.
If they don't comply, they will lose their licences to publish other material,
such as news.
Officials had so far identified 500 websites across China that carried
pornographic pictures and film clips, the China Daily reported.
Hundreds of websites, including the most influential ones, published "indecent
or even pornographic content" to attract users, the Xinhua news agency
reported.
The crackdown on internet porn reflects two top concerns of the Chinese
leadership – the ethical standards of the young and the subversive potential of
the internet.
With 80 million registered users, the government is finding it increasingly
difficult to control the internet, but that has not stopped it trying.
State media reported last month that the government had suspended the
registration of new internet cafes after a three-month sweep in which it closed
16,000 existing ones.
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