Advocacy
China: Anti three-vulgarity campaign
Recently Beijing launched a new anti-vulgarity campaign for sanitizing the Internet. On August 3, China Daily and people.com.cn jointly organized a seminar on “boycotting banality, cliche and debased culture, improving the new media cultural quality” to set the principles and figure out strategies for the new moral campaign. Below is a summary of People's Daily's report on the seminar.
Definition of vulgarity
Blocking of Wikipedia reported in Iran
According to news published in English and Persian on July 25, the Wikipedia free encyclopedia website was blocked in Iran and could not be accessed. Users tryng to acess the website are having this blockpage stating “By refering to the law concerning computer related misdeeds (crimes) access to this site is not available.”