China declares war on Internet pornography

> The Chinese government regularly censors Internet content in an effort to diminish the distribution of politically subversive material, but now the communist state is expanding its control and targetting Internet pornography web sites as well. According to a Chinese government official, 221 people have been arrested, and almost 600 web sites have been shut down since March in a crackdown on “obscene” Internet content. According to Zhao Shiqiang, the vice chief of the Ministry of Public Security’s Internet Security and Supervision bureau, the government is in control, and winning the slow battle against information that government officials consider harmful:

With the huge amount of pr0n sites on the internet, noone is going to notice.