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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    China closes 91 websites in crackdown

    BEIJING
    Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:29am EST
    Customers use computers inside an Internet cafe in Shanghai January 5, 2009. REUTERS/Aly Song

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China has shut down 91 websites for pornographic and other "vulgar" content, as well as a political blog portal, since announcing its latest bid to ensure Internet morality, state media said on Monday.

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    China's ruling Communist Party is wary of threats to its grip on information and has conducted numerous censorship efforts targeting pornography, political criticism and Web scams, but officials flagged tougher steps this time.

    "Ninety-one websites that included pornography and vulgar content had been closed down from January 8 to 10," the state-run Web portal China (www.china.com.cn) said.

    Bullog.cn, a Chinese blog portal with many famous bloggers, including some signatories of the pro-democracy "08 Charter," has been inaccessible since Friday.

    Luo Yonghao, the founder of Bullog.cn, confirmed on his own blog that the website had been closed because of "amount of political harmful information," citing a notice from government.

    The "08 Charter," issued online with the names of 303 Chinese citizens, calls for freedom of expression and association and open elections.

    China's latest crackdown on Internet content targeted many big names, including Google, Microsoft's MSN and homegrown market-leading rival Baidu, for undermining public morality.

    None of the big names was on the list of 91.

    (Reporting by Yu Le; Editing by Nick Macfie and Sanjeev Miglani)
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