The Chinese government has intensified its campaign against sexually-explicit Internet material by instructing companies including Google to curb the readily availability of pornography. (news.cnet.com)

China's government launched a month-long campaign to stamp out Internet pornography on Monday, with Google's search engine topping the list of Web sites it wants to see crack down on pornographic content.Beijing hits out at Google in web porn crackdown Financial TimesChina targets Internet sites United Press International (news.google.com)

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