China: Over 1,000 arrests of Internet users

In total 1065 arrests of Internet users has gone by the police in China's gigantic enterprise "cleaning" of the Internet started in mid February, as reported today by the agency New China.
Moreover, the authorities have gone out more than 208,000 "harmful" messages relating not only to  acts of criminal law, but also have "political flavor".
Administrators at least 3,000 sites have received warnings during this campaign that aims, as the agency explains, smuggling weapons, drugs, dangerous chemicals, and the sale of human organs and privacy.
Today Beijing has announced major restrictions on the use of micro-blogs, the closure of many sites and arrest people accused of spreading "rumors" for a coup in Beijing.
The two largest micro-blogging services in China, Sina Weibo and Tencent QQ today suspended the ability for users to post comments, officially to combat "rumors".
The two Internet giants have confirmed their websites that the measure will apply until April 3.