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Chinese government shut down 1.3 million sites last year

According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Chinese government shut down 1.3 million sites in 2010.

That number accounted for 41 percent of all Chinese websites.



Following its policy of censorship, China began a massive crackdown on pornography in 2009, and there have been hundreds of thousands of porn-based sites shut down in the last two years.

Despite the huge drop, Academy researcher Liu Ruisheng said China has a "high level of freedom of online speech" and that overall number of web pages increased to 60 billion in 2010, up 79% year-over-year.

"This means our content is getting stronger, while our supervision is getting more strict and more regulated," added Ruisheng (via BBC).

Social media sites like Facebook, Youtube and Twitter have all been censored in the past to restrict easy sharing of activist ideals.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 14 Jul 2011 0:24

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• KillerBug

  Quote:
  Despite the huge drop, Academy researcher Liu Ruisheng said China has a "high level of freedom of online speech"
  What he actually meant is that they have an insanely low level of freedom of offline speech, and that anonymous VPNs are the only safe way for a Chinese citizen to express anything at all. It is considered "activism" to simply state that one person should not have to support twenty elderly family members by themselves.
  
  The border between China and North Korea is less protected than the border between France and Belgium and people still only defect from NK to China when they are on the verge of starvation...enough said?
  

  http://www.killerbug.net

  14.7.2011 04:01 #1

• bgfrtrhn8jigrft (unverified)

  you cant cencor the internet f-in commies

  17.7.2011 13:37 #2

• dablur

  You can't possibly censor the internet, f-in commies.

  17.7.2011 13:38 #3

• buxtahuda

  You can't plausibly, though very possibly, censor the internet f-in commies
  
  (personally, I'm surprised China hasn't just disconnected itself entirely, putting its fingers in its ears and yelling how it can't hear us. Then turned around and made a much inferior adhoc version. The CommieNet)
  

  ~*Livin' Electronicallly*~

  18.7.2011 12:27 #4