Gay websites shut down in ‘clean-up’ – Vivien Cui
From South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia:
A mainland internet domain-name registration company has purged several influential homosexual websites under pressure from police in a crackdown on “illegal content”.
At least three gay forums have been closed down in the ongoing “clean-up” process. The forums, all second-level domain names under the Ful.cn address, include tzgay.ful.cn with 100,000 hits per day, and chinagay.ful.cn, a burgeoning sex education organisation which has attracted 400,000 visits since its establishment in February.
Some other forums have begun filtering gay content themselves in order to pass censorship restrictions, with Fjtz.ful.cn deleting all its gay-related sections and changing its forum’s name from “Fujian Tongzhi”, a popular Chinese term for homosexual, to “Fujian Comprehensive Forum”. [Full Text]
