- BEIJING (AP) -- China's police
ministry on Sunday handed out rewards of up to $240 to people who reported
pornographic Web sites in a campaign to stamp out online smut, the government
said.
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- Some 445 people have been arrested and 1,125 Web sites
shut down with the help of public tips since July, the official Xinhua
News Agency reported, citing the Ministry of Public Security.
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- The ministry handed out rewards of $60 to $240, Xinhua
said, but it didn't say how many people received them.
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- China encourages Internet use for education and business
but bans sexually oriented content on its own Web sites and tries to block
access to foreign sites deemed pornographic or subversive.
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- The online crackdown is part of a sweeping official morality
campaign launched this year on orders from communist leaders.
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- Television stations, video game makers and other suppliers
of popular culture have been ordered to reduce or eliminate violent or
sexually oriented content.
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