\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":"
The number of Chinese websites has fallen by 41% over the past year, according to a new report from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From AFP: The 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,10,100,6],"tags":[6308,6323],"class_list":["post-122408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-revolution","category-law","category-politics","category-sci-tech","tag-internet-development","tag-internet-regulation","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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