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China Arrests 41, Shuts Down 1,250 Web Sites
BEIJING, 24 Jan -- Chinese authorities have shut down more than 1,000 Internet sites and detained 41 people as part of a crackdown on pornography and lewd content.
The deputy director of the State Council's Internet Affairs Bureau said Friday that 1,250 sites have been closed since the campaign began on January 5.
The deputy, Liu Zhengrong, said the sole aim of the campaign is to create a clean Internet environment for children.
It is illegal to distribute pornography in China.
But China's official Xinhua news agency said lewd content also includes "violence, libel, private and other information that violates standards of public decency."
Xinhua said the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center has received more than 18,000 reports of pornographic and lewd Internet content since the start of the campaign.
One of the sites closed early in the campaign was bullog.com, which hosted outspoken political and social commentary. Some writers on the site signed a petition calling for democratic reforms.
China aggressively censors the Internet to block any sites it considers offensive or politically subversive.
This year marks politically sensitive anniversaries, including the 20th anniversary of the Chinese government's military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations at Beijing's Tiananmen square.
China has the world's largest online population of any country with an estimated 250 million users.
中国关闭1250家网站，拘捕41人
中国政府为打击网络淫秽和低俗内容传播，已关闭1000多家网站并刑拘41人。
国务院新闻办网络局副局长于周五称，自今年1月5日该打击运动开始以来，1250家非法网站被关闭。
刘正荣副局长称此次运动旨在为青少年创造良好的网络环境。
在中国，传播淫秽内容有违国家法律。
但据中国官方——新华社称，低俗内容还包括“暴力、诽谤、侵犯隐私以及其他有违公共道德标准的信息”。
据报道，中国互联网违法信息投诉中心自这次运动开始以来已经收到了18000多条针对淫秽低下内容的投诉。
牛博网是在网络整理运动中较早遭关闭的网站，该网站汇集了大量直言政治及社会现实的内容，其中一些作家在网站上自行发起了呼吁民主改革的《08宪章》。
中国一直对于其认为具有攻击性或政治破坏性网站严加检查并关闭相关网站。
今年是众多政治敏感事件的周年纪念，天安门事件20周年便是其一。
据估，中国拥有2.5亿网络用户，网民数量居世界之首。
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发表于 2016-8-12 16:31:16