China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested

lothos writes with news that China has arrested thousands more people and shuttered 60,000 websites in an ongoing anti-pornography crackdown. "Wang Chen, director of the Information Office of the State Council, said at a news conference that some 350 million pieces of pornographic and indecent internet content were eliminated, according to the Xinhua report. The government launched a special campaign a year ago to rid the internet of pornographic and vulgar content, Xinhua reported. Overall, the campaign included 2,197 criminal cases involving 4,965 people who violated Chinese law by disseminating pornography via the internet or mobile phones, the news agency said. Of those, 58 people received prison sentences exceeding five years."

Comments

China censorship is not news for nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

It's part of everyday life in china. Whether you agree with it or not, censorship is a way of life there.

Therefore posting a story like this shouldnt be news or news relevant to nerds. Its about the same as posting an item in the crime log of a local paper.

Bottom line this is an internal matter for china. You people need to just butt out.

Re:There is no left or right

[Monkeedude1212]

This is clearly a Euro-central idea and thus in Asia its left wing and in North America its Right wing.

Re:There is no left or right

[oldspewey]

Doesn't that destroy the meaning of "left wing" and "right wing"?

Porn ... is there anything it can't do?