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Chinese blog sites shut down.

China is targeting personal Internet sites known as weblogs in its latest attempt to censor the World Wide Web.

The Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders says the Chinese Government has shut down two sites hosting weblogs for thousands of people.

One of the sites, BlogBus.com, hosted more than 15,000 weblogs that have now been made inaccessible, the group said in a statement.

The site was shut down on March 11, for allowing a letter to be posted that was critical of the Government. The website could not be opened today.

"Due to the fact that the content in some blog user's blog violated regulations, the web server has been temporarily shut," a message on the website said.

"We will try to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."

The other blog hosting site, Blogcn.com, was shut down on March 14. It also remained inaccessible today.

The crackdown comes days after China approved an amendment to its constitution to for the first time say that the state respects and protects human rights.

posted by Rei Toei @ 10:41 a.m.