{"id":552400,"date":"2007-05-28T20:41:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T20:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552400-china-tells-dating-websites-to-stop-selling-sex.html"},"modified":"2007-05-28T20:41:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T20:41:54","slug":"china-tells-dating-websites-to-stop-selling-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552400-china-tells-dating-websites-to-stop-selling-sex.html","title":{"rendered":"China tells &#8216;dating&#8217; websites to stop selling sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The outrageous pimping content in some websites is very shocking,&quot; the Beijing Online News and Information Panel said in a statement, according to China&#8217;s Xinhua news agency. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">One of the websites, ostensibly a lonely-hearts dating service, contained a posting supposedly from a young woman describing herself as a &quot;professional pleasure giver,&quot; Xinhua said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The 12 sites are loaded with similar information, including &quot;service items, pricing and contact information,&quot; Xinhua quoted the statement as saying. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The online panel, which has representatives from government, academia and the public, has ordered a complete purge of such information from the sites by June 1. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">China&#8217;s government, while happy about the Internet&#8217;s potential as a spur to growth, is wary of online pornography and has sought to crack down in widely publicised campaigns. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese Internet watchdog has accused 12 dating websites in Beijing of being a cover for prostitution and has ordered them to clean up their act, state media said on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}