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China censors websites in vulgarity crackdown
Kyrgyzstan News.Net
Monday 12th January, 2009
Websites, featuring what the Chinese government has called vulgar content, have been closed down.
Over 90 websites containing pornographic and political material has been removed since China announced its Internet morality campaign.
China's ruling Communist Party has a history of engaging in web purges, in attempts to remove pornography, political criticism and web scams.
Officials have now threatened tougher penalties for those companies disseminating the material.
In the past the crackdown on Internet content has included the big search engines, Google, Microsoft's MSN and Baidu.
None of these was targeted this time.
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Anonymous
01-12-09, 05:26 AM |
China censors websites in vulgarity crackdown
Central Office. We are your freinds.
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Anonymous
01-12-09, 08:41 AM |
good for china
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China
01-12-09, 12:32 PM |
WWD
China the web pages on global internet is now billions and may reach 1000 billion in future. Vulgarity is also in book shops around the world,it the same thing. Better to encourage people to higher tastes than vulgarity, to reduce the woes.
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Anonymous
01-12-09, 05:02 PM |
way to go!
China has taken a step that everyone should have taken long ago......
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