China Cracks Down on Online Porn – AP

From AP via Examiner.com:

The Chinese government is launching a new crackdown on online pornography, complaining it has “perverted China’s young minds,” a state news agency said Friday.

The Ministry of Public Security says the six-month campaign will target cyber strip shows and sexually explicit images, stories and audio and video clips, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

Also Friday, police announced that two Web site operators were sentenced to four years in prison and a third got one year for distributing pornographic movies and other materials in separate cases last year, the Xinhua agency reported.[Full Text]

-Also see Chinese police crack down on internet crimes from People’s Daily

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