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The number of Chinese websites has fallen by 41% over the past year<\/strong><\/a>, according to a new report from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From AFP:<\/p>\n

\nThe Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) said there were 1.91 million websites operating in China at the end of 2010, 41 percent fewer than a year earlier, attributing the change to stronger regulation.<\/p>\n

“Although the Internet is posing some problems for new media, our regulation is becoming stronger, we have taken a very big step in this area,” CASS media expert Liu Ruisheng was quoted as saying on the organisation’s website.<\/p>\n

Liu said China had “a very high level of freedom of online speech” and there had been few cases in recent years of sites being closed purely to control speech.<\/p>\n

He said a crackdown launched by the government in 2009 under which thousands of sites were shut down was mainly aimed at putting a stop to online pornography, although critics have said other sites were also closed.<\/p>\n

But while the number of websites dropped, Liu said Chinese webpages increased in 2010 by 60 billion, an increase of 78.6 percent over 2009.<\/p>\n

“This means our content is getting stronger, while our supervision is getting more strict and more regulated,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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