February 10,2009, According to Xinhua news agency, since last december, China 's government has closed 136,000 websites under the flag of clamping down internet pornography. MIIT（Ministry of Information Industry Technology）and its sub-branchs in each province play a key role in this clamping down.
According to government's data, up to now, they have checked nearly 1.8 million websites whose server locate inside mainland China， closed 136K unregistered websites and 126 accesee service provider. At same time, CNNIC (China Internet Information center) and 55 internet domain providers checked 13.5 million doman name, nearly 80% of all domain names in mainland China, stopped 12,000 domain name transfering.
China's government says that what they do is according to China's law, and it is helpful to clean the internet environment in China. The action is welcomed by the public since its start, but the public didn't notice the negtive effect of the action, or they daren't not critisized government.
Then what is the negative effect. That is there is no space for personal websites in mainland China in the future, that is it will be more difficult if you want to public your own opinion on internet, that is operating small websites will be more difficult.
Don't think that 136000 websites who are closed by government are all pornographic websites. Many of them are closed just because they didn't make the registration, or their original registraion deleted by government(They only allow enterprises to make registraion, not person). Also if a website want to have BBS or blog services, you have to satisfy many stricted requirements set up by the government.
Government's clamping down is really a disaster for many personal website owners. Somebody may want to move their website server to overseas provider, but considering the "Internet Great Wall" of China, that is not a good idea. It is very possible that their website can not be visited in China or become very unstable. .
No one doubts China's government has a good intention to do this clamping, but many times, a good intention also can lead to bad result. You cannot say, China's government is smart this time. To have all internet websites controlled by the government, maybe it is also another aime of this clamping down.
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