China targets Google in crackdown on pornography

5 January 2009, 4:22 am

China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google.Seven government agencies will work together on the campaign to 'purify the Internet's cultural environment and protect the healthy development of minors,' according to an announcement on the government's official Chinese-language Web site, china.com.cn.Pornography is banned in China, though the government's Internet police struggle to block Web sites based abroad.... Read More »

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