From September to November, Chinese public security authorities
shut down 598 porn websites and wiped out 35 porn domain names,
according to a news conference on Thursday.
All the porn websites that have been discovered in China as of
today have been closed, announced Wu Heping, spokesman of the
Ministry of Public Security (MPS) at a news briefing on a
nationwide campaign of cracking down on-line porn.
The clues of porn websites reported by the public every day have
dropped to 9.4 from 14.1, most of which refer to foreign porn
websites. And the clues of on-line video porn show have dropped to
2.1 from 13, he said.
With 2,700 reported cases in 2000 and 14,000 in 2004, on-line
porn activities, gambling and fraud have become serious crimes in
recent years and are still rising, said Wu.
More than 80 percent of the domestic computers were once
infected by virus annually in recent years and the daily junk mails
flowing to domestic users exceeds 60 million, making China a giant
country of sending and receiving junk mails, he said.
Together with the Information Office of the State Council and
the Ministry of Information Industry, the MPS launched a nationwide
campaign on cracking down on Internet porn like on-line video
chatting in September this year.
Meanwhile, the MPS announced that China is to carry out new
Internet regulation starting from March 1, 2006 to prevent computer
virus spreading, harmful junk e-mails and organized bawdry online
activities.
The regulation specifies that Internet service-providers
are obliged to safeguard the Internet security and the police
should supervise all providers.
A series of Internet-based technologies including monitoring
computer systems and recording such information as the logon time
and the browsed websites are standardized according to the
regulation.
The regulation also states that any online safeguarding
technique should not be used to infringe upon the individuals'
freedom and privacy and at least two members of the police should
be at scene when inspecting suspects.
One MPS official said the public are encouraged to report any
online activity violating laws or code of conducts through phones
or an official websites net.china.cn.
(Xinhua News Agency December 30, 2005)