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January 10, 2009, Saturday
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THE Chinese government blocked 41 Websites yesterday for providing pornography and other lewd content as part of a month-long campaign to clean up the Internet.
All the sites violated laws regarding the public distribution of sexual images, said a statement issued by the office in charge of cracking down on lewd content. The Websites were not named.
Late Thursday, China widened its purge of "vulgar" Internet content by targeting 14 new sites, including Microsoft's MSN, and chiding Google for not doing enough to clean up. Those sites were still operating last night.
MSN was cited for the large amount of inappropriate images on its film channel and some "selected pictures" in its social messaging section on a list that was posted on the Website of the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center.
"We'll take effective measures to get rid of harmful content and tighten our surveillance system, MSN China said on its Website.
Launched earlier this week, the latest dragnet originally targeted 19 sites, including Google and home-grown market-leading rival Baidu, for undermining public morality.
The companies have since apologized and pledged to clean up.
On Thursday, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center also issued a progress report on the sites originally targeted. Only three were deemed to have done a "relatively good" job cleaning up, and among those that "need to continue the cleanup" is Google.
The firm had taken initial steps but still had some vulgar pictures on its "photo search" page, the center said.
Baidu was listed in a group of companies that were found to have made "ineffective" cleanup efforts.
All the sites violated laws regarding the public distribution of sexual images, said a statement issued by the office in charge of cracking down on lewd content. The Websites were not named.
Late Thursday, China widened its purge of "vulgar" Internet content by targeting 14 new sites, including Microsoft's MSN, and chiding Google for not doing enough to clean up. Those sites were still operating last night.
MSN was cited for the large amount of inappropriate images on its film channel and some "selected pictures" in its social messaging section on a list that was posted on the Website of the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center.
"We'll take effective measures to get rid of harmful content and tighten our surveillance system, MSN China said on its Website.
Launched earlier this week, the latest dragnet originally targeted 19 sites, including Google and home-grown market-leading rival Baidu, for undermining public morality.
The companies have since apologized and pledged to clean up.
On Thursday, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center also issued a progress report on the sites originally targeted. Only three were deemed to have done a "relatively good" job cleaning up, and among those that "need to continue the cleanup" is Google.
The firm had taken initial steps but still had some vulgar pictures on its "photo search" page, the center said.
Baidu was listed in a group of companies that were found to have made "ineffective" cleanup efforts.
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