China> closes over 60,000 Internet porn sites this year with 5,000 of them are in the process of law, the government spokesman said on Thursday.
Head of the Government Information Agency Office of Wang Chen’s promise not to stop the operation against the charge that it considered obscene.
Beijing launched an act of resistance against what he called a number of charge Internet and cell phones that are not obscene and dirty in the country and threaten the emotional health of children.
Critics who accuse the government of China to act hard and tighten the overall sensor that was launched in December last year, citing that the operation was to capture a lot of sites that contain politically sensitive content or even a site that is simple and general.
Wang Chen is also the cabinet spokesman said that the operation is important.
“Our operations have great success and this is not achieved easily,” he told a news conference. “We make the Internet a cleaner environment, which had provided many porn sites.”
“We have changed the situation and this has been quite accepted by many in the community,” said Wang. “But our operations will not stop, this will be a long struggle.”
“As long as there are still those who have bad motives who want to spread violent or pornographic information, we will continue operations to crack down on the spread of such information.”
Of the 4965 suspects, 1332 people get a “criminal punishment” with 58 imprisoned more than five years, said Wang.
The government examined 1.79 million Internet sites and remove 350 million articles, photos, and video footage pornographic and obscene, he said.
China has more population in the network (online) than any other country with an estimated 450 million Internet users by the end of November.
The government then worry if the Internet can be a dangerous channel for threatening images and ideas in China.
China to block some sites and popular Internet services like Google, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook as well as other Chinese sites.
The government accused them contain dangerous cargo to China’s security and violated Chinese laws including the figure showing the protests in sensitive regions such as Tibet.
Wang said he had read media reports about the president up Mark Zuckerberg who visited China recently, but said that Zuckerberg did not visit the department authorized to oversee the Internet in China.
“We read the news that he met with famous figures in China’s Internet industry. We are also still trying to learn more about his visit to China,” he added.
Google Inc., the largest Internet search engine in the world closed its search service in China in March, two months after Google said it would stop censoring search of what is called the attack a complex virtual world that traced to China, plus the increased restrictions on freedom of expression there.
Disputes are settled in July after Google changed the mechanism to guide the user into a search engine without a filter. The case has triggered diplomatic tensions between China and the United States concerning freedom of the Internet site.
