The internet must be ‘clean and righteous’ and vulgar content must be resisted in the field of culture, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a meeting of senior propaganda officials, according to state media on Wednesday.
The government has been tightening controls over internet content as part of what it says are efforts to maintain social stability, taking on ‘vulgar’ and pornographic content as well as the unauthorised dissemination of news.
China shut as many as 128,000 websites that contained obscene and other ‘harmful’ information last year, Xinhua News reported in January, citing government data.