Lewd crackdown extended to mobile phones
23-01-2009
China has extended a crackdown on electronic porn to the country's mobile phones after shutting down 1,250 websites because of their explicit content according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The report quoted a joint notice from the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Culture and five other government offices as saying that they will incorporate 'lewd' messages spread via mobile phones into the crackdown. China promised last week that the campaign, which was launched in early January, will be no "flash in the pan". The reports said more than 40 people have been detained for disseminating porn on the Internet and over 3-million "items of online information" have been deleted.
