China launches campaign to crack down on Web porn

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS), along with nine other government departments, announced the launching of a campaign Thursday in Beijing to restrict the spread of pornography on the Internet in China.

"The boom of pornagraphic content on the Internet has contaminated cyberspace and perverted China's young minds." said Zhang Xinfeng, vice minister of MPS.

In the next six months, Zhang said, the ministries will crack down on illegal on-line activities such as distributing pornographic materials and organizing cyber strip shows, and purge the web of sexually-explicit images, stories, and audio and video clips.

The campaign will also target on illegal on-line lotteries and contraband trade, fraud, and "content that spreads rumors and is of a slanderous nature", said Zhang.

"The inflow of pornographic materials from abroad and lax domestic control are to blame for the existing problems in China's cyberspace," he said.

Source: Xinhua