China has shut down a pair of Web sites that were free-ranging user forums known as blogs, stepping up government attempts to control political discussion on the Internet, a media watchdog group reported even as one site reappeared Friday.
However, a note Friday on the page of the second site, blogbus.com, said it was still closed due to content problems.
“Because individual postings contained forbidden content, the server is temporarily down. We will seek a speedy resolution to the problem,” said a message on the site’s Web page.