China said Thursday that Authorities had shut down more than 60.000 pornographic websites as part of a year-long crackdown on lewd content online, as Beijing moves to tighten control over the Internet. "By the end of November, we had inspected 1.8 million websites, and closed down more than 60.000 unsound websites that spread porn," Wang Chen, minister for the press office of the State Council, China's cabinet, told reporters.
He added that authorities had jailed 58 people for at least five years in the crackdown on lewd online and mobile phone content that was launched in December last year.
China, which has the world's largest online population with 450 million users, operates a vast web censorship system sometimes known as the "Great Firewall of China".
The government says it censors the Internet to curb "unhealthy" content including porn and violence, but critics counter that it is mainly trying to prevent the posting of information that challenges the ruling Communist Party.
Still, emboldened Chinese web users have made the Internet a new forum to, among other things, express opinions in a freewheeling way rarely seen in the strictly government-controlled traditional media.
Wang said the crackdown would continue as violence and pornography would not disappear from the Internet.
"This special operation to rectify online pornography and vulgar content has not come to an end - this is a protracted was," he said.
60 000 porn websites in China were so turned off. Wow! Sounds really great. One should, however, to know that the Chinese are everywhere, extremely hard working and geschaeftstuechtig. China has even one of the biggest porn networks on the Internet. Anyone who knows a little Chinese and conversant, may even start looking. The network is quite separated from our western side, since domains have to be called almost exclusively in Chinese. It is estimated that there are several million more in three ste3lligen area! of Chinese-language porn websites on the Internet. In most cases, pay-sites - for free are rare among the Chinese anything. Not even Glueckskekse. 
closed 60 000 350 000 000 porn sites and deleted text, photos and videos: China cleans the World Wide Web, a government spokesman. The operation was part of a designed multi-year action that should be removed in the framework of "indecent" content on the net. "The hard-won successes have the Internet on purified ", State Council spokesman Wang Chen celebrated the success. In the course of a year ago launched campaign against Internet pornography, 5,000 people were punished.
Wang did not comment on sensitive political content, but the fight against pornography opens in China also usually releases one, which differ from the views of the ruling Communist Party. China is the country with the most Internet users. Their number is estimated at over 420 million. The Government of the People's Republic of censored for a long time lots of content in net. This is partly due to the installation of filtering software on public computers. Officials say that this "unhealthy" parts are to be filtered out, such as pornography and violence. Critics see the censorship but a means to protect the ruling Communist Party.
