China clamps down on porn websites
2013-02-27 19:27
Beijing - China says it has closed scores of websites for
offering pornography, video sharing and online gaming.
The official Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday said a new
crackdown led to the shuttering of 225 websites and more than 30 000 blogs and
Twitter-like microblog accounts found to be offering obscene or improper
content.
They included sites offering photo and video sharing as
well as online gaming, Xinhua said, citing a statement from the State Internet
Information Office.
It said the office was working with police and the
ministry of industry and information technology to investigate those running
the sites and how they got online.
China's Communist authorities heavily police the internet
for content deemed obscene or politically subversive.
Twitter, Facebook, and other Western social media sites
are blocked.
- AP
