Six porn websites closed in Beijing (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-04-30 09:18 Beijing Internet authorities shutdown six
pornographic websites in an effort to prevent their so-called 'negative'
influence on society.
The six websites, including "www.ysdm.com" and "www.xf13.net", contained what
was determined to be 'unhealthy content' and were shut down Friday according to
relevant regulations, the newspaper Beijing News reported on Saturday.
Operators of two other websites were given a deadline to clean up the
contents on their websites after an investigation, the paper said.
In early April, a proposal to operate 'civilized' Internet websites way won
support from fourteen major websites in the city.
The Internet authorities have also increased their supervision of Internet
websites.
In recent years, the Internet industry in China has seen remarkable progress
and now has more than 700,000 websites, with more than 25,000 being added each
year. There are more than 100 million Internet users in the country.
In 2004, Chinese government kicked off a massive campaign to weed out
pornography from the rapidly-growing Internet.
In 2005, 11 people were jailed for up to 12 years for running an obscene
website in China's largest case of Internet pornography.
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