12-31-2010, 10:25 AM
[url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342724/China-shuts-60-000-porn-websites-arrests-5-000-people-internet-clamp-down.html"]China shuts down 60,000 porn sites and arrests 5,000 people in massive censorship crackdown[/url]
Quote:With an estimated 450million internet users - more than a third of the country's population - China has a bigger online population than any other country.
It has blocked a number of popular websites, including Google's YouTube, Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, as well as Chinese content sharing sites.
The communist government has accused them of carrying content harmful to China's security and in breach of its laws, including images of protests in sensitive regions such as Tibet.