Two of the biggest portals in China, Sina.com and Sohu.com have seen their search engiens being temporarily shut down, in a sign of intensified internet censorship, with millions of users expected to be affected. “Chief editors of Web portals were summoned to the State Council Information Office in the morning and Sina and Sohu were ordered to shut down their search engines after they failed an on-the-spot censorship test,” one of the sources said, quoted in the story. The two portals had been given three days to “rectify their mistakes”…
Reuters: Sina.com and Sohu.com are among 14 Beijing-based internet portals which in April called on the industry to follow their example by self-censoring “unhealthy” content from their websites.
Meanwhile, China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced today that from this month until the end of 2006 it will cooperate with the six basic telecom operators in the country to better regulate the service provider market. The ministry said that SPs who are shown to have violated rules will be required to shutdown and straighten out their business within a given period of time.
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