China announced today that it has shuttered 1,250 web sites as they “crack down on pornography.”
Liu Zhengrong, an official with China’s Internet Affairs Bureau, said authorities arrested 41 people as part of the investigation.
“We have made apparent achievements but it’s only for this phase,” Liu said. “We still have a lot of work to do.”
The Chinese government redtagged Google, Baidu, Sina and Sohu, China’s most popular sites, and said that they must improve their efforts to block pornography.
In response, IHTM has warned the Chinese government that they have violated of our decency standards by issuing a press release that uses the words “crack” and “pornography” in the same sentence.
