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China
To Crack Down
On Telephone Sex
China's communist leaders, in a fresh move
to eradicate pornography, have targeted the telephone sex industry,
ordering severe punishment for anyone offering the service. The
call came within days of the start of a nationwide project to
crack down on Internet pornography. "With the rapid development
of the paid-call service market in China, some lawbreakers make
use of this form to spread obscene information and even conduct
prostitution," Minister of Information Industry Wang Xudong was
quoted as saying.
"This
depraves social morals, and especially brings great harm to the
country's young minds," said Wang, quoted by the Xinhua news agency.
The crackdown, which began in July, involves police, propaganda
departments and information watchdogs, must be completed by October
1, China's National Day, Wang said. Regional governments were
ordered to shut down telephone sex operators and to punish severely
those responsible, he said. In the drive to clean up the Internet,
police have closed down more than 700 pornographic web sites so
far and arrested 329 suspects.
China's
communist rulers have gradually relaxed the puritanical rule they
imposed when they swept to power in 1949, but sporadically try
to crack down on the sex industry and are particularly nervous
about pornography on the Internet.
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