This is Beijing-Beijing English blog

Chinese authorities have shut down 162 Web sites that had been found providing pornographic and “lewd” content in their audio or video segments, according to a statement released by the country’s online watchdog Monday.

The blocked Web sites had not acquired permits to broadcast audio and video programs issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), said a statement issued by the Special Operation Office for Crackdown on online Porn and Lewd Content.

The Web sites include www.baigujing.com, www.bt990.com and other sites mainly based in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong Provinces.

The Web sites added to a total of 341 audio and video sites that have been blocked by the SARFT and telecommunication authorities since Chinese government launched a nationwide campaign in January to sweep off pornographic and obscene contents on the Internet.

So far, more than a thousand of Web sites have been blocked by the authorities for distributing porn and other lewd materials in texts and pictures.

The SARFT also asked all Web sites not to post TV series online which had not been censored by the administration.

Now, if you enter the internet bar for the first time in Beijing’s 1500 net bar, you will be taken photo at the monitor and your ID card also shouble be scaned for file. The process will take about half minute. When you go there for the senond time, you just tell your ID card number.

Focus；

1 Dose the pravicy of the user information safe?

According to the legal orgnization department, the owner of the internet bar just get and check the related information, they have no right to change or use the information in any other ways. The pravicy of the user can be safe.

2 Can this stop the minor from the internet bar?

At before, there are still some minor go to the interner bar with the consent of the owner. With this measure, the minor can not go to the internet bar. It will very helpful to prevent the minor to go to the bar.

Responce:

Bar: The users are used to this gradualy.

User：Worry about the safe of the pravicy informaiton, wil try to not go if possible.