This news made me laugh… What a sad news for porn lovers in China as well as in other parts of the globe who loves the open porn sites.

China shut down 44,000 porn sites in 2007

BEIJING - China shut down 44,000 Web sites and arrested 868 people for Internet pornography last year, state media said Wednesday.  China’s Public Security Ministry launched a crackdown on Internet pornography last year, saying it had ”perverted China’s young minds.” Nearly 2,000 people involved in Internet pornography activities also were penalized, the official Xinhua News Agency said.