China Shuts 598 Sites for Online Smut
 

By Associated Press


BEIJING - Chinese police have closed 598 Web sites in a crackdown on pornography, but online gambling and fraud are growing, state media said Friday.

The latest crackdown, launched in March, led to 25 arrests, the China Daily Newspaper said, citing figures from the Ministry of Public Security. That figure was low compared with more than 500 people arrested in a nationwide crackdown last year.

China has the world's second-largest population of Internet users after the United States, with more than 100 million people online.

The communist government encourages Internet use for education and business but has launched repeated campaigns to stamp out material deemed obscene or subversive.

In the heaviest reported sentence for online obscenity, a 20-year-old Web site operator in eastern China was jailed in 2004 for 15 years for selling downloads of sexually oriented movies.

Parallels between the Chinese incident and the Florida case? Nah...

LMAO. I read the headline wrong and thought "598" was code for something sexy. ;) (and obviously disliked by the Chinese government). I wanted to be educated on what "fun" activity a "598" was....

....for instance, 420 is code for something in SF. ;)

4:20 is big here in Canada here, too. :hippie ganga smilie:


Oh, China. When will you learn?

Nice to see they have their priorities straight :rolleyes:

Not to worry.:) With 1 x 10^8 people seeing what they only 'thought', it WILL happen. The toothpaste is out of the tube. They can wipe up a tiny bit, but they can’t put it back. ;)