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China rewards 215 people for tip-offs on porn websites

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-18 20:50
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BEIJING: From December 4 to January 15, China received more than 90,000 tip-offs about porn Web sites and rewarded 215 whistlers amid the latest crackdown on pornography.

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The rewards, ranging from 1,000 yuan (US$146) to 10,000 each, totaled 224,000 yuan, according to the National Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications Office.

Organizations responsible for receiving these tip-offs will check and ratify related information in a timely manner and reward more whistlers in a bid to encourage public participation in the crackdown, said sources with the office Monday.

Last year, more than 15,000 pornographic websites in the country, including over 11,000 mobile WAP sites, were shut down or blocked in 2009.

China intensified its fight against online porn recently.

On December 8, the country launched a new round of crackdown on spreading pornographic contents through Internet or mobile WAP sites to "purify the social environment." The campaign is expected to run to May.
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