China Anti-porn Campaign Continues
The national anti-porn campaign in China is intensifying. Following the shut down of 55 websites during Spring Festival, CIIRC (China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre) announced on February 2nd that another 68 porn Web sites have been closed, bringing the total number of blocked sites to 1,575. On the same day, 148 blogs containing pornography and “lewd” contents were also closed.
A principal of the Special Operation Office for the Crackdown on Online Porn and Lewd Content said that more than half of the closed websites were from southeast Chinese provinces including Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong. The telcom operators in these provinces provided internet access services for these illegal websites.
He also stated that the porn Web sites gained profits mainly through charging fixed telephone or cell-phone users to log onto the site. Low threshold of website running business and lack of supervision are two of the reasons that make the porn websites grow.
He emphasizes, anti-porn is still very arduous task. Further measures will be made to crack down the online porn and lewd contents, leaving no space for them on the Internet. No enterprises should provide channels for the porn websites to get income. And those who provide internet access or income collection channel will be Held accountable in accordance with the law or relevant regulation.
The principal also emphasizes, any forms of distribution of pornography on line are prohibited, and distributing pornography by bloging is also illegal.