China: Websites Forced To Close By Police · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

Vapano from a data company D2EX reported that many Internet Data Centers have received notices from Gong-an (Police department) which forced them to close down thousands of websites. To prevent other clients service being affected, his company has to close down all BBS data storage (zh). The police's policy is to ensure that the 17th National Congress of the CPC will go on smoothly.