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SOHU » Topics » We may be subject to the PRC governments ongoing Internet crackdown on vulgar content.

These excerpts taken from the SOHU 10-K filed Feb 26, 2009.

We may be subject to the PRC government’s ongoing Internet crackdown on “vulgar” content.

In early 2009, the Ministry of Public Security and six other PRC government agencies jointly launched a crackdown against major websites that are accused of threatening morals by spreading pornography and vulgarity. The websites affected are all of the dominant search engines and portals, including us. This is a nationwide campaign to clean up vulgar content currently available on the Internet and has exposed a large quantity of material that the PRC government agencies believe violates public morality and harms the physical and mental health of the youth and young people. We have deleted all webpages with allegedly vulgar material from our relevant channels and communities. In addition, we have strengthened our internal censorship and supervision of links and content uploaded by the users. We have not, to date, received any penalty from PRC government in this regard. However, there is no assurance that content considered vulgar by the PRC government agencies will not appear in the future. In the event that we are accused by the government of hosting vulgar content, our reputation could be adversely affected.

 

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We may be subject to the PRC government’s ongoing Internet crackdown on “vulgar”
content.

In early 2009, the Ministry of Public Security and six other PRC government agencies jointly launched a crackdown against major websites
that are accused of threatening morals by spreading pornography and vulgarity. The websites affected are all of the dominant search engines and portals, including us. This is a nationwide campaign to clean up vulgar content currently available on
the Internet and has exposed a large quantity of material that the PRC government agencies believe violates public morality and harms the physical and mental health of the youth and young people. We have deleted all webpages with allegedly vulgar
material from our relevant channels and communities. In addition, we have strengthened our internal censorship and supervision of links and content uploaded by the users. We have not, to date, received any penalty from PRC government in this regard.
However, there is no assurance that content considered vulgar by the PRC government agencies will not appear in the future. In the event that we are accused by the government of hosting vulgar content, our reputation could be adversely affected.

 


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10-K (2 sections)
Feb 26, 2009

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