Almost one billion pornographic and harmful posts in 2014 have been self-inspected and deleted by Chinese websites in an internet cleanup operation. “Authorities also closed down about 2,200 websites and 20 million online fora, blogs and social media accounts that had spread erotic and illegal content,” said Ren Xianliang, deputy head of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC).
During the operation, all domestic gateway websites have well cooperated. “Among the one billion deleted posts, 220 million were on four leading gateway websites, namely Sina, Sohu, Tencent and Netease. Two major search engines Baidu and Qihoo 360 deleted 130 million posts,” State-run Xinhua news agency reported.